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So mayor Pete is a Red Diaper baby! This explains a lot
So writes Charlie, a longtime reader of mine and of The American Spectator. Please note that Charlie didn't call Pete a red, but a red-diaper baby. There's a difference. And either way, it's a point that isn't irrelevant and should be dealt with and laid out carefully.
Charlie sent me that email back in October and urged me to write about the subject. Given Mayor Pete's surge in the polls, and given my repeated run-ins with the said 'red-diaper' background Charlie is referring to, I finally decided to put something together.
As for that red-diaper background, Charlie is referring to the work of Pete Buttigieg's father, Joseph Buttigieg, who was the world's foremost expert (certainly the English-speaking world) on the famous Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Joseph, who died in January 2019, was no less than the founder of the International Gramsci Society, a fact hardly a secret and acknowledged warmly on the website of the International Gramsci Society. It's so unmissable that the first thing that displays when you open the website is Joseph's photo with a memorial tribute. In fact, as someone who regularly checks that website, I can tell you that Joseph's photo has been the lead on the screen for a full year and counting. He was very important to them."
Mayor Pete: Red Diaper Baby | The American Spectator
This is kind of a long piece but it's a fascinating read.
I know there are some things about Mayor Pete I certainly wasn't aware of and I don't think any media has explored.
Some examples:
Pete's father was a Marxist.
The parallel between Pete and Barack and their Marxist parents and other Marxist influences.
Pete immersed himself in Marxism starting at an early age - high school through college.
In high school Pete wrote a glowing essay on - wait for it - then Congressman & Socialist Bernie Sanders.
Nonetheless even with Pete's shallow media examination so far it's been obvious that calling Pete a moderate is preposterous.
The Red Diaper Baby piece concludes with ...
"No, this doesn't mean that Pete is a commie, a closet member of Communist Party USA, or that he, say, served as a presidential elector to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (as Bernie Sanders did). But it surely helps explain Pete's obvious cultural radicalism, which no doubt was something he would have first observed under the red-diaper roof of his father."
We've seen Mayor Pete in uniform, we've seen him on the campaign trail and in debates.
What's fascinating is contemplating when the media, or Mayor Pete's opponents, would want to get around to mentioning Pete's little known history themselves.
You'd think they would be aware of it by now.
There are examples of famous Communist/Marxist citizens of some note who have changed their thinking.
Pete should be given the opportunity to explain his changes, if he's made any.