This idea that we just sort people into baskets of good and evil ignores the central fact of human existence, which is that each of us is a basket of… - Pete Buttigieg

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This idea that we just sort people into baskets of good and evil ignores the central fact of human existence, which is that each of us is a basket of good and evil. The job of politics is to summon the good and beat back the evil.

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Peter "Pete" Paul Montgomery Buttigieg (pronounced /ˈbuːtɪdʒədʒ/; born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and former military officer who has served as the United States secretary of transportation since January 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete".

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Birth Name: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
Alternative Names: Peter Buttigieg • Mayor Pete
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Our ability to trust in institutions and in one another — the ability to trust that we are subject to the same facts, even living in the same reality — is now endangered. A combination of causes has brought us to this point, a crisis of trust that has the potential to be paralyzing.
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