I get that this is a propaganda documentary in preparation for his 2024 campaign, but seriously:

Chasten, holding the couple’s one-eyed puggle upright in his lap, tells Moss to ask Buttigieg about his identity. “He did everything to climb every ladder without being his authentic self,” he says. Buttigieg didn’t come out of the closet until 2015, when he was 33, already mayor. “You spent so much of your life hiding who you really were — did you feel like you were able to be your true self on the campaign trail?”

“Do you think he’s ready to answer that question?” Moss asks. “Can he answer that?”

“He should. You can try.”

Buttigieg walks in the room. Before he leaves, Chasten turns to his husband.

“Don’t bull---- us, Peter,” he says

My bisexual nightmare! If I was with a lesbian who looked down on me like this, who treated me with such disdain, I would dump her. You can't treat your partner like this.

Again, this is a performance intended for potential voters- which makes it worse!

I'm lost at why all the straight women who make up Buttigieg's staff seem to think coming out after 30 is some sort of moral aberration. They made a massive issue out if this, unprompted, in his last campaign.

I can guarantee voters mostly aren't aware there are social taboos in liberal social circles about gay people "coming out late."

I also disagree with the assertion in the lede that Pete is a "gifted politician." He sucks at this and would be happier, I think, quietly working a professional job where he wasn't constantly having to jump through hoops to please homophobic liberals.