It looks like former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is getting started on his 2028 ambitions early. 

In addition to growing the beard, he appeared on "The Bulwark" and was asked what he/Democrats should have done differently under Joe Biden. 

What would @PeteButtigieg change if he could go back in time to 2020? pic.twitter.com/GMbINPwjr6

— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) May 27, 2025

Buttigieg said, “One, for the love of God, figure out a way to get the schools open sooner." While he said they were "doing their best to deal with a crisis," he said the "costs" for the generation "were profound." 

“Pay more attention to the border, uh, that's real," he said. That’s going to be something you can’t just take your time to deal with, he observed.  

"Three, even though you spent your entire political lifetime believing that the economy and jobs are the same thing, and if you have lots of jobs, it’s a good economy, and if you have a problem with jobs, it’s a bad economy, remember that prices are just as big a part of the economy, it just hasn’t come up much in the last 40 years," he declared. 

Buttigieg said there were a lot of moments where people just kind of "waved it [inflation] away." 

Oh, my, can I laugh at this reformation now? 

Declaring these like they're big or intelligent revelations now is hilarious. The glaring reality is that we on the right were right on all these issues five years ago. We didn't need the benefit of hindsight to know high prices were not good for the economy or that not opening schools would have a profound effect. 

Democrats were against opening schools at that time. Biden destroyed the border with his policies; it wasn't just a failure to act, it was obliterating the security that President Donald Trump put in place. And the Biden team didn't just wave inflation away; they lied repeatedly about it, acting as though the people suffering were making things up. Biden even claimed that inflation was 9 percent when he came in, when, in fact, it went up from 1.4 to 9 percent under him. That was such an egregious lie that Biden got four Pinocchios from the Washington Post. 

So why should anyone pick Pete over people who got it right the first time? He's saying this now after five years because he wants to paint over the failures during his time with the Biden team. 

I will note he is right that the Democrats' problem isn't just messaging, it was/is their bad policies that hurt people.

What he doesn't say that he should have said? Get to East Palestine, Ohio. Do something truly substantive to resolve the issues in the air traffic control system. You know the things that were in his purview that he should have done. 

Some on the left were falling for this pitch from Pete like it was profound. Meanwhile, the folks on the right were laughing at him and having a great time as he confirmed we were all right.

I agree with Pete that the Republican critics of the Biden administration were right about everything

— Pudge (@pudgenet) May 28, 2025

Buttigieg gets zero credit for saying the right things about reopening schools five years too late (and not a day sooner).

This guy sought every media opportunity to attack Trump during the pandemic, trying to run for president again does not absolve him. https://t.co/YQcrlLEuQx

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) May 28, 2025

No.

You do not get a mulligan on school closures, progressives. It was your Groups, your leaders, and your media who inflicted such harms on America’s children. https://t.co/dOEvfzmVNz

— Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonDC) May 28, 2025

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