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Pete Buttigiegs Focus: Storytelling First. Policy Details Later.
By Alexander Burns at the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-2020-writing-message.html
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A Times review of Mr. Buttigiegs writings, starting in college, found that rhetorical task to be a consistent preoccupation. As a student, Mr. Buttigieg, now 37 and the mayor of South Bend, Ind., habitually discussed Democrats challenges in terms of language and argument, rather than policy or ideology. Mr. Buttigieg urged liberals in his student columns to speak in terms of effective political values, and he recalled corresponding in college with the University of California, Berkeley, linguist George Lakoff, who in 2004 published a best seller about political communication.
In an interview, Mr. Buttigieg said his college writings were no longer fresh in his mind. But then, as now, he acknowledged, he was focused on the interaction of narrative and politics, and how parties connect with people beyond policy decrees.
The story that we tell, not just about government but about ourselves, and the story we tell people about themselves and how they fit in, really grounds our politics, Mr. Buttigieg said.
Mr. Buttigieg said in the interview that Democrats in 2004 faced a crisis of authenticity, with too many pretending to be more hawkish than their consciences were.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)I very much like Pete and his campaign style, but, it's time for him to "start putting some meat on the bones" or he's going the way of the other "flavor of the month," like Beto.
Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)The problem, of course, is you have candidates like Bernie & Elizabeth, who are rolling in content, substance and purpose and, thus, set the standard by which all other candidates will be judged.
Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)and definitely before the first debate.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)A presidential candidate who refuses to make pie in the sky promises that he can't deliver later on. I will take him and his husband and I don't give one fuck what some asshole writer at the New York Times thinks
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
applegrove
(118,696 posts)been thinking about narrative and politics for a long time. Can't wait to see what other storytelling he does.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
True Dough
(17,310 posts)His policy details are gradually emerging. He's holding plenty of town halls and doing media interviews where he's being put on the spot about specific issues and he's not shrinking violet. But he's not over the top either. Even-keeled Pete. He'll take us a long way.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Graphs and checklists don't inspire people to stand in the rain to come see you, personalities do.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
applegrove
(118,696 posts)electoral college, slowing moving to Medicare for All and adjusting the supreme court? He's not been a blank slate on policy.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,357 posts)But at the end of the day, if you're running, you have to take your own advice and talk about your own effective political values. What are they?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
applegrove
(118,696 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
elleng
(130,974 posts)and how parties connect with people beyond policy decrees.'
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)You draw people in with broad ideas at first to pique their interest and then once the campaign gets deeper, so do the policies.
For most voters, you have to get them in the door first before you sell them on your policy. That's what he's trying to do right now. Obama was similar in 2007 and early 2008. He spoke in very broad terms and generalities, then as campaign season got deeper, he did as well.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden