Mayor Pete Buttigieg was welcomed to the big leagues last Sunday by catching hell for telling the truth.
Speaking to supporters in New Hampshire, he said that economic conditions made Americans "want to vote to blow up the system," which, as The Hill put it, could make either Trump or Sanders appealing to them.
For that, Sanders' national co-chairman, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), called Buttigieg "intellectually dishonest," adding, bewilderingly, that Sanders only “wants to blow up credentialed elitism — those who reject tuition free college for all."
Thus did Mayor Pete have to "clarify" his comments, which sound very much like his original comments:
“My point is that people have been motivated to want to blow up the establishment. And Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump represent radically different ways of doing that. But I think part of how each of them was able to get some appeal was by speaking to the frustration that so many Americans have with anything perceived as the establishment."
No, Mayor, Sanders wants to blow up "credentialed elitism," a phrase which carries all the credentials of elitism itself.
Anyway, let's hope Buttigieg has learned his lesson: One never criticizes the pure ones among us.