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Pete Buttigieg: “The realities are changing. The way we set up our government…”

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

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Mike Muse Interviews Pete Buttigieg on America's Future, Leadership & Public Service

Published | Video Starts at 31:50

And now someone living, a middle class person living in a city in China has a more technologically advanced day to day life than a lot of people living in cities in the American middle class. So The realities are changing. The way we set up our government should be changing with it. We can do that, but it means, especially for my party, we can't be afraid to have things look very differently than they did. (31:50–31:56)

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Asserts that government structures should evolve with changing realities.

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