{"id":1933709,"date":"2023-05-19T01:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T05:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-probe-the-beautiful-voluminous-and-transcendent-mind-of-the-worlds-most-remarkable-human-being-pete-buttigieg\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T01:16:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T05:16:56","slug":"lets-probe-the-beautiful-voluminous-and-transcendent-mind-of-the-worlds-most-remarkable-human-being-pete-buttigieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-probe-the-beautiful-voluminous-and-transcendent-mind-of-the-worlds-most-remarkable-human-being-pete-buttigieg\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore the remarkable mind of Pete Buttigieg."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flets-probe-the-beautiful-voluminous-and-transcendent-mind-of-the-worlds-most-remarkable-human-being-pete-buttigieg%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933709&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Glorious Mind of Pete Buttigieg<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s the year 2023, and I&#8217;ve finally read the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-probe-the-beautiful-voluminous-and-transcendent-mind-of-the-worlds-most-remarkable-human-being-pete-buttigieg\/\" title=\"Explore the remarkable mind of Pete Buttigieg.\">obsequious feature story<\/a> ever written about a politician in a major publication. Wired magazine, once home to thought-provoking writing on technology and entrepreneurship, now pumps out slabs of conventional left-of-center technocratic wisdom. But Virginia Heffernan&#8217;s depiction of Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s glorious mind is so much more. It is a masterpiece.<\/p>\n<h3>The Magic of Heffernan&#8217;s Prose<\/h3>\n<p>The magic begins with the headline and subheadline, and then refuses to let up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sure, the US secretary of transportation has thoughts on building bridges. But infrastructure occupies just a sliver of his voluminous mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indeed, Heffernan informs us, Buttigieg is compelled to hold much of his intellectual powers &#8220;in reserve&#8221; because a &#8220;cabinet job requires only a modest portion of his cognitive powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even as he discusses railroads and airlines, down to the pointillist data that is his current stock-in-trade, the US secretary of transportation comes off like a Mensa black card holder who might have a secret Go habit or a three-second Rubik&#8217;s Cube solution or a knack for supplying, off the top of his head, the day of the week for a random date in 1404, along with a non-condescending history of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful.<\/p>\n<h3>The Real-World Collision<\/h3>\n<p>But it&#8217;s when this hypersycophantic prose collides with Mayor Pete&#8217;s real-world, tedious, clich\u00e9-ridden tautologies that the piece really springs to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately,&#8221; writes Heffernan, Harvard, PhD. &#8220;he was willing to devote yet another apse in his cathedral mind to making his ideas about three mighty themes\u2014neoliberalism, masculinity, and Christianity\u2014intelligible to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, in fairness, Heferman does throw around lots of -isms in an effort to sound smart\u2014&#8221;neoliberalism,&#8221; &#8220;paleoliberalism,&#8221; &#8220;Episcopalianism,&#8221; oh my. But it&#8217;s worth the wait as Buttigieg finally unsheathes his preternatural cerebral powers to explain the failures of neoliberalism:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have experienced the end of the end of history. We have certainly experienced the limitations of the consensus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To mere mortals, that probably sounds like a bunch of inane D.C. poli-speak gibberish. And, yes, the rest of the answer is verbatim to what any Ivy-league sophomore interning at the Brookings Institution would say. But is your mind a Cathedral? That&#8217;s what I thought.<\/p>\n<p>When Heffernan asks our hero whether &#8220;Republicans really want to be dragged into a bigger far-right project, including the renunciation of democracy, modernity, civil rights, human rights,&#8221; the greatest mind of our generation\u2014perhaps any\u2014treats readers to his fresh, incisive perspective. The &#8220;two greatest pillars of the mainstream right&#8221; destroying &#8220;democracy, modernity, civil rights, human rights,&#8221; says Mayor Pete, are GOP&#8217;s efforts to limit abortion and &#8220;lower taxes for the wealthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I bet you dummies are pretty mad you never thought of that, right? But, to top it off, Mayor Pete drops these words on us:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re now the dog that caught the car. And, to switch metaphors, they rode a tiger to get there. They made a lot of distasteful bargains in order to get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who can argue? The man who once told us that the &#8220;shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue,&#8221; also illuminates our understanding Christianity. &#8220;When you&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-slams-dr-fauci-gets-him-to-admit-theres-no-evidence-to-back-covid-boosters-for-kids\/\" title=\"Rand Paul Slams Dr. Fauci, Gets Him to Admit There's No Evidence to Back COVID Boosters for Kids\">making public policy<\/a>,&#8221; the political left&#8217;s go-to man on faith notes, &#8220;you&#8217;re often asking yourself, &#8216;How does this choice help people who would have the least going for them?'&#8221; Help the poor? Finally, a new concept for Christians to ponder!<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Buttigieg and Heffernan also take on the &#8220;masculinist and antidemocratic preoccupations&#8221; of the right. &#8220;The politicization of masculinity is code for Nothing in your life has to change. The problem is, of course, lots of things have to change,&#8221; Buttigieg explains. &#8220;Either because there was something wrong with the old way\u2014or because, even as the old way seemed perfectly fine, it&#8217;s not an option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, perhaps some of you are thinking that Buttigieg might have kept slightly too much of that intellectual capacity &#8220;in reserve.&#8221; I say it&#8217;s all perfect.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abandoned-all-pretense-of-being-conservative-jonah-goldberg-joins-cnn-as-a-commentator-social-media-erupts\/\" title=\"\u2018Abandoned All Pretense Of Being Conservative\u2019: Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN As A Commentator, Social Media Erupts\">nationally syndicated columnist<\/a>, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books\u2014the most recent, Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent. Follow him on Twitter, @davidharsanyi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, I read the most fawning feature story about a politician in a major publication. Wired magazine, once known for thought-provoking tech writing, now churns out predictable left-of-center views. Virginia Heffernan&#8217;s portrayal was particularly cloying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1933710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[16793,4943,5847,8043,8633],"class_list":["post-1933709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-remarkable","tag-buttigieg","tag-explore","tag-mind","tag-pete"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}