Pete Buttigieg, like French president Emmanuel Macron, is young, brainy, global in his thinking and determined to thwart Donald Trump
That distinctiveness reminds Evan O’Connell, a French American citizen who campaigned for Macron and worked as communications director for Joe Sestak’s 2020 bid, of Macron. O’Connell says Macron won the attention of voters for being obviously different from other candidates, able to draw from both left and right.
And they’re furious more Democratic primary voters don’t see it the same way. Can’t voters see that Amy Klobuchar is red-county friendly too, with 25 years more experience? Don’t we realize Joe Biden filled out presidential primary filing papers when Buttigieg was literally in nappies, in 1984?Emmanuel Macron knows a thing or two about that. He began his political rise in 2016 and 2017 in a fugue of hubris.
From this base camp Macron built a campaign outside of France’s system of public political funding. The strategy was to mobilize an army of volunteers—more of a movement than a party—to break through a crowded establishment field. Buttigieg’s national polling average didn’t hit double-digits until the last week of November. Like Macron, who snuck up on the French elite he’d spent years courting, Buttigieg rose to the top of the Iowa and New Hampshire polls before anyone could put him back in his place. And it’s Buttigieg who’s still standing as others drop out of the race, or are relegated from the debate stage.
Can you imagine Mayor Pete lifting from Macron’s playbook to deliver a foreign policy speech in front of the Parthenon in Greece next summer? Or perhaps a mass rally at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate as then candidate Barack Obama hosted in 2008? Probably not.
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