The more you know about exclusion, the more you think about belonging. We have a crisis of belonging in this country. - Pete Buttigieg

If our first response toward anyone who struggles to get onto the right side of history is to denounce him as a bigot, we will force him into a defensive crouch — or into the arms of the extreme right.

The principles that will guide my campaign are simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker: freedom, security, and democracy.

But I was admittedly frustrated after Iowa. The conspiracies multiplied. Someone noticed that our campaign had purchased software from the same software company that made the flawed app in Iowa — enough to send the Twittersphere into a tailspin. A staff member on my campaign was married to someone who ran a company that invested in the company that made the app — clear evidence! No one really took the trouble to explain what all these tidbits were supposed to amount to, but then, conspiracy thinking is not obliged to answer questions; it merely asks them, insinuating.