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With special guests Mac Folkes and Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire), Ben explores the life story, politics, and cultural phenomenon of Pete Buttigieg. From his resume-polishing early life to his racist record as Mayor to his recycling of stale right-wing attacks on progressive policy, we look at how longer-term trends in gay life and culture, including the split of the "mainstream" wealthy and white gay rights movement from multiracial struggle, have influenced both his politics and the broad audience they have found.\xa0\n== Update, 8 March, 2020 ==\nWe are devastated by the recent death of Mac Folkes, one of our two guests on this episode.\xa0A legend of the scene, a devoted friend, and a fierce fighter for justice. Rest in power.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\xa0\nMayor Pete editing his own wikipedia:\xa0https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/pete-buttigieg-wikipedia-page-editor.html\nOn his early life and childhood:\xa0https://apnews.com/47fc3e167cd64488b16890c8973bb208\nOn his time at Harvard, including quotes from his memoir,\xa0Shortest Way Home:\xa0https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete\nAndrew Sullivan on Rhodes Scholars:\xa0https://books.google.de/books?id=cIdMpKduSmkC&pg=PA108&dq=andrew+sullivan+rhodes+scholars&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false\nOn McKinsey, and its business model and recent scandals:\xa0https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/world/africa/mckinsey-south-africa-eskom.html,\xa0https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/business/mckinsey-puerto-rico.html,\xa0https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/mckinsey-company-capitals-willing-executioners)\nOn Mayor Pete's secretive record at McKinsey:\xa0https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/henrygomez/pete-buttigieg-mckinsey-clients\nOn Mayor Pete's record on housing and environmental racism:\xa0https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/henrygomez/mayor-pete-buttigieg-south-bend-gentrification,\xa0https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/south-bend-poor-say-democrat-pete-buttigieg-left-them-behind.html\nOn the firing of Darryl Boykins:\xa0https://theintercept.com/2019/09/20/pete-buttigieg-south-bend-police/\nOn the shooting of Eric Logan and protests in June 2019:\xa0 https://wsbt.com/news/local/probe-of-eric-logan-shooting-could-revive-scrutiny-of-buttigieg, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/mayor-pete-buttigieg-protesters-heckled-south-bend-police\xa0\nOn the community/police events Mayor Pete skipped to campaign:\xa0https://theintercept.com/2020/01/23/pete-buttigieg-south-bend-police-oversight-fundraisers/\xa0\nOn the recent protest at a campaign event in which Mayor Pete asked the protestor to 'respect the format':\xa0https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1221198787466665986/photo/1\nOn Mayor Pete's changing position on Medicare for All and attacks on proposals for universal social programs:\xa0https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/16/buttigieg-tweet-medicare-for-all-048745,\xa0https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/467478-buttigieg-i-never-believed-in-medicare-for-all-that-ends-private-insurance,\xa0https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/us/politics/buttigieg-sanders-warren-free-tuition.html\nAn article on the campaign's treatment of staffers of color that came out too late for us to include in the episode:\xa0https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/buttigieg-campaign-black-hispanic-staff.html\nOn allegations the campaign faked Black support for its racial justice proposal:\xa0https://theintercept.com/2019/11/15/pete-buttigieg-campaign-black-voters/