Pete Buttigieg: “It’s always been ugly, but now it feels more and more like bloodsport.”

And then we wake up to see billions in crypto money going right into his pockets and corporate lobbyists getting their way everywhere from the AI industry to my old haunts at the U.S. Department of Transportation.

So forgive us if we don’t believe him when he says he’s going to give everybody $5,000, but only after the election and only if they win.

And I couldn’t help but thinking, as I rounded the edge of the mall, that the only thing he’s actually managed to drain is that reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

I came to South Carolina to propose something about the country’s future.