Pete Buttigieg on JimmyKimmelLive and the vacuum of leadership on TV (Column)
Buttigieg, the former Democratic presidential hopeful, was booked before the crisis roared into its current phase. He gamely took part in an attenuated show, one with a small audience comprised of “Kimmel” staffers and Buttigieg entourage members, all whooping as loud as they could to make up for the empty chairs between them.
But “gameness” is not always a virtue. Buttigieg seemed vaguely embarrassed as he, late in his monologue, ran through B-level material about his wardrobe, insisting he hadn’t written it. His embarrassment came for the wrong reasons: Because it was prickling at his ego, not because for a man who was a week ago trying to run the country trying to stay in our consciousness in this moment, in this way felt vaguely disgraceful.
Elsewhere, Buttigieg attempted to re-litigate the early Democratic primaries — not ideologically but simply along the lines that his just desert had been taken from him.
Buttigieg did address the nature of the moment, but only through the emptiest of platitudes: “The only way we’re going to get through this crisis is with unity,” he asked the audience of staffers. “So who’s with me?” He also instructed viewers to “Tell your doctors and representatives now is the time for action” and exhorted: “Believe me when I say the resolve of our nation is strong.
Perhaps there’s something to the fact that the person currently seen as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, like his evident runner-up, is not just far from a natural at being on camera but fairly uninterested in taking part in the entertainment apparatus. It’s hard to imagine that voters are making up their minds along these lines, or that they are rejecting the me-first ethos of a President still — for now — popular enough to define his base’s understanding of the ongoingstory.
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