The Party of Black Lives Matter, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and decolonization gives Mayor Pete Buttigieg, technocratic dweeb, the #1 slot in the race to become the 2028 nominee for president.
Mayor Pete has a lot of fans in the Democratic Party, although I will explain to you why his #1 rating means a lot less than you might think in a moment. First, we should take note that Mayor Pete is not so popular with a key constituency that Democrats must win by an 80-20 margin to have a shot in the general election: black voters.
2028 Democrat hopeful Pete Buttigieg is polling at 0% with black voters.
— Eric Matheny 🎙️ (@ericmmatheny) August 10, 2025
Zero.
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There are many reasons why Mayor Pete is seemingly doing well in the Democratic Party's race to the White House. He is in many ways their dream candidate: Harvard-educated, served in the military so he can cosplay a patriot, soft-spoken, technocrat, and he seems to be a moderate while holding very progressive views. He is hardly averse to spreading money around to every leftist with his hand out, and he is gay. Voting for him makes older white liberals feel warm, fuzzy, and virtuous.
His incompetence is no barrier. These people voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, for God's sake. Each vote is a performance, not a policy choice, and Mayor Pete's only negative qualities are his race and gender.
As attractive as Mayor Pete is to this slice of the electorate, he attracts literally nobody else. Most people, when they look at Buttigieg, see a beta male with the leadership qualities of a deputy assistant manager at a failing Dairy Queen. Black men are, if anything, even more "masculine" than the average, and Buttigieg's lack of presence and his mannerisms give him the charisma of a wet noodle.
Pete Buttigieg speaking about racist overpasses. Watch it for yourself! pic.twitter.com/8zBeJ011PV
— WhatDidYouSay (@NoFilterMeSorry) August 9, 2025
Boomer liberals and AWFLs may love discussions about racist overpasses--what could be more useless virtue signaling than discussing racist overpasses?--but young voters want socialism, not a dweeby gay man who worked for McKinsey Consulting, and minority voters don't go in for woke and want somebody more muscular than Buttigieg.
Nobody who has ever listened to or watched a rap video can see Pete Buttigieg fitting into the culture of "urban" blacks. Since 2015, I have argued that Trump is a white rapper--alpha male, ostentatious, into women--and that explains why he has made inroads into minority communities who see a bit of themselves, or at least their aspirations, in Trump. He is gangsta. Mayor Pete? He is not.
Buttigieg will have his moment because every candidate in every lane will have a moment, but his ceiling of support is not much higher than his approval ratings right now. You may recall that the establishment lined up behind Kamala Harris in 2019, but she flopped with voters. Pete will do better than that because there is still an old-line boomer contingent who want to feel good about themselves by supporting a gay man, but who want to stay away from socialism and culture wars. Pete is less alphabet-y than Biden was.
But all the ideological energy is with the young, angry, and socialist. And I don't see the DNC having enough juice to rig the primaries as they did for Hillary! and Sleepy Joe.
The center of gravity in the party is with AOC and Zohran Mamdani.
I'm afraid that fighting racist overpasses are not enough to get the Democratic nomination for president.
Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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