This is what fear-driven politics looks like in real time. A woman claims her trans and gay neighbors are at risk of being rounded up and sent to concentration camps, an outrageous and baseless accusation.

Instead of pushing back, Pete Buttigieg amplifies it like it’s a serious, credible threat. This isn’t leadership. It’s reckless fearmongering designed to divide and manipulate. Truly disgraceful.

Emotionally liberal spews falsehoods:

“Every day I wake up scared because a person I love is trans. And I’m waiting for the day that they start banging on doors and taking our trans and our gay friends and family to concentration camps. And they can’t get, our trans friends and family can’t get a passport to safely flee this country. And I know that there’s nothing you can do about that. But if you could, what would it be? oh”

Pete Buttigieg responds:

First of all, it’s horrible that you have to even think about that kind of fear for somebody you care about. And it’s horrible that so many Americans live in that kind of fear for themselves and for those they love. And it shouldn’t be that way, and it doesn’t have to be that way. Because, as divisive a wedge issue as that has been made to be for political purposes by politicians who figure that stepping on people’s faces is the best way to get ahead. Because they definitely don’t want to be talking about why they want to cut Medicaid or why they think taxes ought to be cut for billionaires. So they want to talk about this.

But it remains the case that Americans, most Americans, do not believe that somebody should be discriminated against, let alone harmed, because they are transgender or gay or anything else. That’s most of us. Don’t let them make you feel like that’s some fringe position.

And I worry about what’s going to happen to folks. I mean, it’s already happened as the official policy of this country, you know, that people who soldiers and airmen and Marines and sailors who were doing a good job lost their job, for reasons that had nothing to do with their job performance just because their identity was disapproved of by the ideology of this administration. That is wrong. People know that’s wrong.

So, of course, what we need is political leadership that is against discrimination. But I don’t want you to feel like there’s nothing you can do. Because one of the most important things, especially for somebody who is in a vulnerable position, is to have people who love them rooting for them, being there for them. And the fact that you’re there for them could be everything. So don’t feel like it doesn’t make a difference.

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