{"id":366793,"date":"2021-11-14T03:54:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T00:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-mayor-pete-a-sharp-look-at-the-man-who-would-and-may-be-president\/"},"modified":"2021-11-14T03:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T00:54:19","slug":"watch-mayor-pete-a-sharp-look-at-the-man-who-would-and-may-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-mayor-pete-a-sharp-look-at-the-man-who-would-and-may-be-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Mayor Pete&#8217;: A Sharp Look at the Man Who Would (and May) Be President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d681028cf0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d681028cf0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-mayor-pete-a-sharp-look-at-the-man-who-would-and-may-be-president\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Mayor_Pete_A_Sharp_Look_at_the_Man_Who_Would_and_May_Be_President%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Mayor Pete&#8217;: A Sharp Look at the Man Who Would (and May) Be President&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-mayor-pete-a-sharp-look-at-the-man-who-would-and-may-be-president\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Mayor_Pete_A_Sharp_Look_at_the_Man_Who_Would_and_May_Be_President%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Mayor Pete&#8217;: A Sharp Look at the Man Who Would (and May) Be President&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Mayor_Pete_A_Sharp_Look_at_the_Man_Who_Would_and_May_Be_President%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Mayor Pete&#8217;: A Sharp Look at the Man Who Would (and May) Be President&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Mayor_Pete_A_Sharp_Look_at_the_Man_Who_Would_and_May_Be_President%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Mayor Pete&#8217;: A Sharp Look at the Man Who Would (and May) Be President&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Pete Buttigieg is going to be the President of the United States. That is something I believe, and have from virtually the moment I first saw him \u2014 though I don\u2019t suspect it\u2019s going to h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en for 10 or maybe 20 years. If you watch the fascinating new documentary \u201cMayor Pete,\u201d which was shot during the year leading up to the 2020 Democratic primary season and its aftermath, you may end up believing it too.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a spark that certain politicians have, and it\u2019s not about <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> training or visionary policy or the deep aura of decency. You need all those things, but you\u2019re either born with the spark or you\u2019re not. John F. Kennedy had it. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had it. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama had it. (Hillary Clinton, for all her virtues, does not have it.) It\u2019s the X factor, the natural-born leadership charisma that makes a politician feel like a protector and a commander and a wise moral overseer but \u2014 somehow, miraculously \u2014 one who is just like you.<\/p>\n<p>The X factor is a combination of elements, of course. It is confidence. It is intelligence. It is warmth. It is strength without the appearance of narcissism. (Obviously, one or two presidents who\u2019ve had the X factor are, in fact, pathological narcissists. I\u2019ll leave it to you to identify them.) Any number of good politicians possess any number of these traits, but the secret ingredient \u2014 the X factor within the X factor \u00ad\u2014 is joy. And since the politician who radiates <em>that<\/em> quality can communicate it while discussing even the wonkiest of policy issues, the joy, to be clear, isn\u2019t about putting on a party. It\u2019s not about giving a speech of trumped-up boosterism (pun intended). It\u2019s about the joy of connection.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Buttigieg possesses that rare quality. It\u2019s there even in his look. Sure, you could say that he resembles a handsome Alfred E. Newman, or a mid-level bank executive, or the medium-size-town mayor he was, but there\u2019s an eager bite to his smile, to the light in his eye, to his combination of avidity and inner calm. In his boyish genius way, he\u2019s magnetic, like Jimmy Fallon\u2019s cute-geek kid brother crossed with a beagle puppy, and with the thousand-yard stare of the combat veteran he is. Clinton was greeted as the heir to JFK, and Obama, in his real-world centrist way, was seized on by the Democratic Party as a once-in-a-generation sequel to Clinton, but Buttigieg may actually be closer to JFK than either of them. He\u2019s the idealized version of an ordinary person, and the most dramatic thing about him \u2014 the fact that, if elected, he would be the first openly gay American president \u2014 is at once movingly central and fantastically incidental.<\/p>\n<p>All of which gives \u201cMayor Peter\u201d a compelling but still slightly oddball place as a documentary. Much of it was filmed in the months leading up to the Democratic caucuses in Iowa, when Buttigieg looked like he had a real shot. So the film, in a sense, is like a 21st-century media-world version of \u201cPrimary,\u201d the landmark v\u00e9rit\u00e9 documentary that followed JFK (and Hubert Humphrey) on the trail through the 1960 Wisconsin primary. But the fact that JFK went on to win the presidency gave that movie its meaning; watching it, we were the privileged witnesses to the first act of an extraordinary campaign, back when JFK was just a contender. \u201cMayor Pete\u201d works in the opposite way. Since Buttigieg lost, the first act we\u2019re seeing is all there was (and we know just where it went). The challenge for a movie like this one is: What makes it more than a redundant recap?<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the Buttigieg mystique does; we get to know him better than ever. He gave the filmmaker, Jesse Moss, full access, so there\u2019s plenty of opportunity to hang out with Pete and his slyboots husband, Chasten, in their cozy two-story 1905 neoclassical house in South Bend, Indiana, and on the workaday city beat with Mayor Pete, and in the first days of the campaign, when it consisted of an office with four hired hands. In 2012, Buttigieg took over as mayor of South Bend just weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>week declared it \u201cone of America\u2019s dying cities,\u201d but he made great strides toward turning the city around, which became the basis for his campaign: Why not run Washington with the results-oriented common sense required to be a Midwestern mayor?<\/p>\n<p>As we see, the other quality that Buttigieg brought, apart from the awesome nimbleness of his virtuosity as a speaker \u2014 a blend of plainspoken eloquence and bull\u2019s-eye sharpness \u2014 is the way that he presented his struggle with his sexuality as a personal odyssey that could connect with the lives of ordinary Americans. Closeted until his early 30s (he says, only half-jokingly, that he came out so he could finally start dating), Buttigieg went through extraordinary struggles with who he was, to the point that he wanted to take whatever it was that made him gay and \u201ccut it out with a knife.\u201d He says this right on the campaign trail. It\u2019s an extraordinary testament for a politician to make about his own pain, his own spiritual formation, and the bigotry of his society.<\/p>\n<p>Yet somehow, Buttigieg says it to his audience while making it seem like they\u2019re family. In South Bend, explaining what it was like to come out and run for a second term as mayor, he says, \u201cMy community lifted me up like a brother and like a son.\u201d That\u2019s confronting a political question about being gay with an answer that\u2019s like a Frank Capra movie in 10 words. As Buttigieg explains it, he felt, as a gay man, that he did not belong, and he believes \u2014 quite rightly, I would say \u2014 that that\u2019s a feeling that now defines increasing numbers of Americans. He is using what was his own alienation as a lightning rod of empathy for the alienation of others. And he\u2019s turning his honesty about his emotional roots into a master narrative as surely as Abraham Lincoln used his own story of growing up in a log cabin. If that\u2019s not the stuff that presidents are made of, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p>\n<p>The Buttigieg we see in \u201cMayor Pete\u201d is quite funny in a gregarious way. He tells a roomful of potential voters, \u201cThis is the only chance you\u2019ll ever get to vote for a Maltese-American left-handed Episcopalian gay war-veteran millennial.\u201d But he\u2019s also self-aware enough to ask, \u201cHow do you master the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> without it changing you?\u201d That\u2019s the question confronted half a century ago in the Robert Redford campaign drama \u201cThe Candidate,\u201d and we now live in a media culture that\u2019s three times as corrupting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayor Pete\u201d shows us the trial by fire of it all, and also the jubilant grind. We see Buttigieg meet the Rev. Al Sharpton for lunch in a Harlem soul-food restaurant, the two silently saying grace. We see Lis Smith, Pete\u2019s \u201ckiller instinct\u201d communications director, tell him about a TV opportunity and order him to refrain from speaking in full paragraphs. We see him in the CNN Town Hall that launched him into orbit, talking about his definition of scripture \u2014 that it\u2019s about talking in the stranger, the poor person, \u201cthat idea of welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We see him confronting the deadly police shooting of a Black man that happened in South Bend just as his campaign was taking off, and the crowd at the town meeting he organizes is <em>raging<\/em> at him. (It was a situation in which he made mistakes, but didn\u2019t try to hide them.) We see his debate training, where at one point Lis Rosenberg says, \u201cHe\u2019s coming across like the fucking Tin Man up there,\u201d which sounds like a problem, except that Buttigieg tells the filmmakers he\u2019s prized for \u201cbeing himself,\u201d and that to work too hard to make a crafted \u201cemotional\u201d statement\u2026wouldn\u2019t be him. (It would definitely be Bill Clinton.) That\u2019s Jedi-mind-trick thinking. It\u2019s also the words of an honest person.<\/p>\n<p>We see a brief encounter between Buttigieg and Joe Biden in Iowa: The two exchange pleasantries about the Democratic Party, but you can feel the dance, with Biden trying to out-power him. We see Buttigieg walk into a packed arena rally to what became his theme music, the funky trumpet fanfare of Panic! at the Disco\u2019s \u201cHigh Hopes\u201d \u2014 which, I have to say, is the coolest rock-star entrance I\u2019ve ever seen a politician make. We see Pete and Chasten talk about having children (which recently happened), and talk about whether they should talk about it on the campaign trail. And, finally, we see Buttigieg grow as a candidate and as a competitor; when he turns on the weaponry during the debates, he can leave blood on the floor. Which is what presidents have to do. (It\u2019s what Joe Biden needs to do with Joe Manchin.) And then we see him lose, and the air, however briefly, goes out of him. 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