ColumnistPete Buttigieg has broken through the noise of a cacophonous Democratic presidential field by raising issues that usually fall by the wayside in an era when politics feels prepackaged and defined by short-term obsessions. It will be useful if his recent comments on two themes, religion and community, have a contagious effect. Like Buttigieg, Booker suggested that works count for more than words. It “stresses the importance of community, because it says, in fact, it’s about action and it’s about action together,” she said. What’s important about Buttigieg’s remarks on religion and community is that he broached issues that seem to have more traction on the right than the left.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2019 22:10 UTC