In a phone interview from an undisclosed location Friday- “I probably shouldn’t get into that,” he said when I asked where he was-Buttigieg waxed philosophical about our age of disinformation, whether America needs a truth and reconciliation commission, and why his fellow Hoosier, Vice President Mike Pence, whom he is reportedly playing in debate prep with Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris ahead of Wednesday’s debate, is underrated as a debater. SO MUCH LOVE FOR and in #Utah /dUOr3DNejY

“Trust and distrust are of course two sides of the same coin, but we’re in a moment where every crisis in front of us from racial and economic justice, to the pandemic, to climate, to democratic legitimacy, all depend largely on our ability to form a greater level of political and social trust than we have,” Buttigieg told me. Buttigieg writes of our distrust of each other, institutions, and the world’s i ncreasing distrust of America. In this short, gut-punch of a volume-part campaign memoir and part big idea book-Buttigieg traces how a crisis of trust shapes our reaction to the issues of our time, from responding to the novel coronavirus to climate change. Now, with less than a month to go before the presidential election, Buttigieg is out with his second book in as many years: Trust: America’s Best Chance. There he is, interviewing his Saturday Night Live stand-in Colin Jost, on his newly launched podcast, The Deciding Decade. There he is on a Zoom fundraiser, raking in more than $10 million for Biden’s campaign. There he is, serving as former Vice President Joe Biden’s red state emissary on Fox News.

Since ending his historic presidential bid in South Bend on March 1, Pete Buttigieg has been nearly omnipresent.

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