Pete Buttigieg Takes Down Republicans With Precise Plan For 'Freedom' In America

Pete Buttigieg summed up his vision for America on Wednesday after comedian Andrew Schulz remarked that Democrats didn’t have a “message” that was loud or controversial enough to counter the GOP’s platform in the 2024 elections.

The former transportation secretary, in an appearance on Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast, emphasized that Americans deserve affordable transit, well-paying jobs and parental leave.

“And if you don’t want to have a kid, I want you to have the right to choose whether to have a kid, which means access to birth control and abortion, those things that give you the freedom to decide on that,” Buttigieg said.

Buttigieg declared that children should have access to schools without funding being “slashed” as Republicans “set fire” to the Department of Education before adding that Americans should also have access to clean air and drinking water.

He also underscored that families, including ones like his, should be able to go to bed feeling “fine” even if a Supreme Court justice wants to “obliterate” them because of their interpretation of religion.

“That’s the life I want everybody to be able to live,” he stressed.

The Trump campaign sought to “win over” young men, finding them to be a key voting cohort who engaged with politics “mostly through edgy bro podcasts and social media,” Time magazine noted in the wake of November’s election.

Schulz, a self-described lifelong Democrat, emphasized to Variety last month that he’s no “MAGA lunatic” just for having Trump on his podcast.

Earlier in his interview with Buttigieg, Schulz noted that Republicans have done a “good job of marketing the perceived failures of Democrats” when it comes to tackling issues such as homelessness in several cities.

Buttigieg — when asked how Democrats respond to such claims without “gaslighting” those cities’ residents — said his party should point to examples of “achievements” in tackling crime, homelessness and housing issues.

He then turned his attention to how Republicans tackle such issues.

“Their answer is ‘Burn it all down,’ right? If we haven’t solved poverty, their answer is we’re going to slash Medicaid,” he said.

He later said, “If you think the answer is to just cut it or privatize it, that’s not an answer. We can do better than that.”