Barring the unforeseen, Pete Buttigieg will not be the Democratic nominee. Though he will not win the presidency, he can claim one real achievement: solidifying a consensus among educated Americans that it is wrong to oppose a candidate because he is married to someone of the same sex.
During the Iowa caucuses, a video circulated of a woman who wanted to retract her support for Buttigieg. “Are you saying that he has a same-sex partner?” the woman asks in the video, which has been viewed more than 3 million times. “Then I don’t want anybody like that in the White House.”
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