Pete Buttigieg: “Our nation has always been at its best when it widens the circle of belonging and equality.”

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.

You know, if Republicans really wanted to give everybody a few thousand dollars, they would have done it this week instead of going home for two months in the middle of multiple national crises.

A lot of people believed him when he said he was going to drain the swamp.

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.