She says that then-Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man.” She adds: “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”
Somehow, she reckoned, the electorate that chose a black man whose middle name is Hussein would not vote for a gay man who had served in the military.
She did not admit that Buttigieg had other weaknesses — such as having done a shockingly poor job as transportation secretary, disappearing for two months in the midst of an acute cargo crisis in 2021; or presiding over several massive nationwide airport shutdowns; or spending tens of millions on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in air traffic control, rather than on qualified employees and urgent upgrades.
Instead, she blamed voters’ perceived anti-gay prejudices — as well as Americans’ supposed misogyny, racism, and antisemitism. Perhaps the voters she had in mind were her own Democrats: she reportedly turned down Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as a running mate because anti-Israel and antisemitic “progressives” did not like the fact that he was Jewish and pro-Israel.
But her overall explanation betrays a contempt for Americans in general that underscores the fact that she was never suited to lead the country.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Zionist Conspiracy Wants You, now available on Amazon. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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