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Pete Buttigieg: “Government in general at the federal level has become so…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Deans Forum - A Conversation with Pete Buttigieg: "Leadership, Innovation and the Next Generation"

Published | Video Starts at 55:41

I think if nothing else, the current rupture demonstrates that our institutional design does not successfully protect against that. I think the other reason we have policy instability is that Government in general at the federal level has become so unresponsive to people, to what people actually think, that you get these lurches. Like MAGA is something like interest. People really committed to it as an idea. Like 20 or 30% of the country. (55:41–55:54)

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