Pete Buttigieg Drops Ominous Warning: Trump Is In ‘Early Stages of Consolidating Total Power’
Former presidential candidate and Biden Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, offered a stark warning this week, saying he believes President Donald Trump is in the “early stages of consolidating total power.”
Buttigieg posted a video message to his followers on social media Thursday night and captioned it, “The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.”
In the clip, Buttigieg lays out the stakes of the current political moment and offers some steps he believes everyday Americans can take to help.
“I think we’re all following the news of the day. We are seeing right before our eyes what it looks like when the head of the government of the country we live in doesn’t think he has to obey the courts or the law. It’s an incredibly important and incredibly dangerous moment for the country,” he began, adding:
It’s a test of whether we’re actually a freedom-loving people. And I think it leaves a lot of Americans feeling powerless. I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t believe that there are a lot of things we can do. Some of them seem old-fashioned, getting in touch with your member of Congress or joining a demonstration in the streets. But those are important.
And we’re gonna have to be creative about other means of making it known that this is a freedom-loving country, that wherever you come out of, left, right, or center, I’m not gonna stand for the head of the government of this country continuing the process of taking on absolute power.
And instead, we’re going to build something different and better, a vision where our politics and our economics respond to the needs of everyday people. One that leaves us more free and more prosperous than before. We are very obviously less free and less prosperous than we were even a few months ago. But this doesn’t have to be a one-way trip.
Watch the clip above.
