Pete Buttigieg: “We're not going to all this trouble just in hopes of remaining 13th in infrastructure globally.”

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

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.

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.