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Pete Enters the Manosphere…

Pete Buttigieg boldly went into the kind of space other Democrats have feared to tread—a podcast of guys being dudes—and walked away with a clear W.

Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg’s Flagrant appearance is so sneaky good that it’s pretty much the ur-text of what Democratic media strategy should look like over the next four years. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Peter Hamby
April 29, 2025

Here are some of the topics Pete Buttigieg discussed on the Flagrant podcast last week: the White Lotus incest scene, cancer research, Grindr, Fox News, Chinese currency manipulation, lesbian college radio stations in Iowa, progressive taxation, fatherhood, “chick flights into space,” tariffs, whether food in Afghanistan turned him gay, Boston crime rates, corporate offshoring, the United Nations, subways, the Cold War, cancel culture, TikTok. That’s just a start.