Pete Buttigieg, the candidate: The "Meet Pete" section Buttigieg's campaign website begins: Pete belongs to the generation that came of age with school shootings, the generation that provided the majority of the troops in the conflicts after 9/11, the generation that is on the business end of climate change, and the generation that—unless we take action—stands to be the first to be worse off economically than their parents. It's one sentence, but it tells us an awful lot about how the South Bend mayor and first openly gay presidential candidate is positioning himself in the vast field of Democratic candidates. Mayor Pete is young. He's a Millennial. He has a perspective that the 2 front-runners (both septuagenarians) couldn't possibly understand: one that is borne out of the reality that he is going to be here to deal with the fallout of the Boomers's shortsightedness. It's not a bad tactic. The field IS large, and as someone ...