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Pete Buttigieg: “We're supposed to be a country that has less vulnerability…”

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 54:44

How are you supposed to do anything like that if you don't know how much is going to change from administration to administration? Here's the weird part. We're supposed to be a country that has less vulnerability to policy whiplash than other systems. right? This is supposedly part of why we have, instead of a parliamentary democracy where the legislature and the ministers and the head of the government are all part of the same party. (54:44–54:53)

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Asserts that the U.S. is supposed to have less vulnerability to policy whiplash compared to other systems.

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