𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐄𝐆 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐇 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

                                                                              

Pete Buttigieg

Hey, it's Pete.  Like so many around the country, I just saw something I didn't think that I would see in this administration; a United States Senator pushed to the ground and handcuffed after asking questions of a federal official.

What are we supposed to do about that?  Well, first of all we name just what happened, which is that the Trump government has crossed one of the reddest of red lines that can exist in a free society.

Any salute of the flag or talk of patriotism or American greatness is hollow if you do not respect the freedoms that our flag represents, the Constitution that directs the course of this country and they've shown what they think of those freedoms and that Constitution.

Now what?  Well, much will depend on the courage of members of the Senate and the House, especially Republicans.  This kind of thing is designed to make them more afraid.

Our job as American citizens is to make sure that they realize they have more politically to lose by riding the tiger of this out-of-control administration that will sooner or later eat them too than going along with it.  

That's going to take all of us raising our voices like never before so that something like this can never happen again.