He is currently among the top six Democratic candidates, jostling for space with others like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who have decades more experience, in a field of over twenty (more may have joined the fray since I finished typing those words, so the count is a guess). A country that has been reluctant to entertain even the very idea of an unmarried president is now giving serious thought to electing Pete Buttigieg, a married, out, gay man with the word “butt” embedded in his name. It is, it seems, a brave new world in America. Excerpt: The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.
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