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Pete Buttigieg: “We need...more participatory models, not because they just…”

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

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Pete Buttigieg at the 2026 Global Progress Action Summit - 5/9/2026

Published | Video Starts at 05:05

And you've also talked about the massive role of money in politics in the US So I know you have perspectives on this institutional reform and how important it is. We're listening. Yeah, look, we're all ears. We need...more participatory models, not because they just have some academic or theoretical elegance, but because they work better. The whole premise of the founding of the United States of America was that your everyday life would be better if you had a government that was accountable to you instead of to a distant monarch. (05:05–34:26)

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