He's for packing the court and universal healthcare. So far so good (although the devil's in the details). But he's [[ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-troubled-by-clemency-for-chelsea-manning/ | against Chelsea Manning ]], so fuck him.
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There are other reasons why he's terrible, too!
- [[ https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.amp.html | He fired his town's first black police chief ]] due to the chief having recorded conversations with white officers "us[ing] racist language", and the national lens being focused back on this area, alongside issues he has to deal with in his ongoing role as mayor, [[ https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-pete-buttigieg-mayor-police-shooting-black-voters-20190624-story.html | hasn't been handled well by him ]].
- Like every centrist, before he was running [[ https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/965396700511825920?s=20 | he supported M4A ]] and now of course pretends he never did.