How Pete Buttigieg’s Explanation for Hate Legislation Went Viral

A recording of a discussion U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics on Wednesday, where he gave his assessment of why and how Republican hate and anti-LGBT legislation is taking root, has gone viral.

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Among other things, Buttigieg says:

There’s a more superficial political pattern that I think has driven some of the politics of the behavior of people like these people in Florida that don’t say gay… that is when all you have is a hammer everything starts to look like a culture war. You got a political faction that really doesn’t have a lot of answers for many of the questions that people are wrestling with. So, what do they do? They find somebody vulnerable and pick on, which at the moment is largely the trans community. If my kids in let’s say a first-grade classroom were to mention in passing that over the weekend they had that they had a great time going with their dads to the zoo, that they would have somehow by saying that uttered something age-inappropriate? [That should] get us really fired up about that fight.

Watch  the full speech below.