Pete Buttigieg: “It is not just a matter of convenience, it is really a matter of safety.”

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.

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.

He brought hope to us.