Mayor Pete Buttigieg: Sorry, All Lives Don’t Matter

H/T Rod Dreher

… and just like that, the progressive wonderboy of the week Mayor Pete steps on a politically correct landmine, and makes exactly the point that I made in the previous post.

“In his State of the City address that March [2015], Mr. Buttigieg said it was “time for South Bend to begin talking about racial reconciliation.”

“There is no contradiction between respecting the risks that police officers take every day in order to protect this community, and recognizing the need to overcome the biases implicit in a justice system that treats people from different backgrounds differently,” Mr. Buttigieg said, according to a transcript of the speech published by The South Bend Voice.

“We need to take both those things seriously, for the simple and profound reason that all lives matter,” he added.

Four years later, as Mr. Buttigieg pursues the Democratic nomination for president, his use of the phrase “all lives matter” — which has often carried the connotation of ignoring the specific grievances of black Americans — has come under scrutiny. …

Repeat after me.

Buttigieg will never flip White populists. Ever. Period. End of story.

Political correctness is an evil, diabolical ideology. It divides people. It has toxified great swathes of our political discourse. When “All Lives Matter” has become an offensive, controversial statement, it is time for the Democrats to address the elephant in the room.

Be smart, Andrew Yang. Stay in the centrist/moderate lane. Let the “progressives” devour the other candidates like Biden and Buttigieg over political correctness. Build a bridge to White populists who are the swing vote in the middle of the electorate. You’re the next president.