I see no reason to trust Pete Buttigieg on anything.  The fact that he was raised by a devout follower and scholar of communist Antonio Gramsci, whose plan to take over the major institutions of society and then carry out a revolution from above is being realized, casts grave doubt on his trustworthiness.  He has never publicly renounced the ideology his father became a champion of. His personal "march through the institutions" has brought him to Harvard, a brief military career, a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, and iconic status among the gay political fundraising community — all powerful enhancements that have made the mayor of a small city into a non-trivial presidential candidate. But even leaving aside all this background, he seems to be trying to have it both ways on a real-world political issue: the status of gig economy workers in a rich tech-based employer.  Jeffrey Cimmino describes the situation in the Free...(Read Full Post)