There was one question and answer on the past and future of the Democrats. I don’t expect Inskeep to do a hard hitting interview, but this should not have been the title.

From memory, they talked about:
• his beard and how Republicans do like it

• the Epstein files and how the Republicans are reacting
• Pete Buttigieg’s knowledge or lack thereof of Biden’s mental acuity
• Dems going forward
• is President Trump a good president?

So the one question and answer:

INSKEEP: Let me put a proposition on the table, and we’ll see if you agree with it or not. The country has changed. Politics have changed. Republicans figured that out and captured the moment, and Democrats have failed to do so up to now. Do you agree with that?

BUTTIGIEG: I would mostly agree. Yeah. I think that Democrats have been slow to understand the changes in how people get their information, slow to understand some of the cultural changes that have been happening, and maybe most problematic of all, to attach to a status quo that has been failing us for a long time.

Right now, you’ve got an administration that is burning down so many of the most important institutions that we have in this country, which is wrong. It is also wrong to imagine that we should have just kept everything going along the way it was. And I think that my party needs to do a better job of addressing the fundamental problems that have led people to mistrust everything.

I don’t know what his fundamental analysis is, but how can you not lay a mammoth sized amount of blame at the feet of Democrats since Clinton? I’m sure Mayor Pete will find a way to not look backwards, only forwards.