Pete Buttigieg makes his first foray into the podcast manosphere
- Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary of Transportation and 2020 presidential candidate, appeared on the podcast Flagrant with Andrew Schultz to discuss current events and politics.
- Buttigieg criticized his Democratic colleagues for shirking podcasts like Flagrant, which has faced controversy over hosting racist content.
- Despite being invited to appear on Flagrant, Democrats declined, prompting Buttigieg to call them out for turning down the opportunity.
- Buttigieg emphasized the importance of engaging with people who hold different views to become smarter and better, and to persuade others.
- This appearance marks Buttigieg’s first foray into the “manosphere” and his entry into online, woke-skeptical bro media.
A Democrat has entered the manosphere.
Pete Buttigieg, the former Secretary of Transportation in the Biden Administration and a presidential candidate in 2020, sat for a three-hour appearance on Andrew Schultz’s Flagrant on Wednesday to discuss current events, the state of politics, and the culture wars – his latest foray into breaking outside of the Democrats’ preferred “echo chamber,” as he put it, and his first into the world of online, woke-skeptical bro media.
Sporting a beard, Buttigieg criticized his colleagues in the Democratic Party for shirking podcasts such as Flagrant, which conducted an interview with Donald Trump during the election. According to co-host Akaash Singh, Flagrant, which has drawn controversy for its hosts’ willingness to engage with racist content, was unable to get Democrats to agree to come on the show, prompting Buttigieg to call them out for turning down the invitation. “We have to be encountering people who don’t think like us and who don’t view the world the way we do, both in order to become smarter and better and make better choices and take better positions, and also to persuade,” he said.
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