This is untrue.

From April launch speech:

"It's time to walk away from the politics of the past, and toward something totally different,"

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1200780485942579201

"By the Obama years, we're doing a basically conservative tweak to our health care system...cooked up in the Heritage Foundation and piloted by a Republican governor." -Pete Buttigieg



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Pete Buttigieg: "People have seen Democratic and Republican administrations letting them down basically for as long as I have been alive."



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From April: "You know, Democratic Presidents in my lifetime, Clinton and Obama both, I think have been operating in a fundamentally conservative framework."

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1200780485942579201

From February: "The compromise position is a single payer system where you have private doctors but a public payer, we have got to stop allowing the right to move the goalposts."



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Feb: “If you grew up during Cold War period, then you saw a time in politics when the word socialism could be used to end an argument. …You can no longer simply kill off a discussion about a policy by saying that it’s socialist”



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"Literally anything we do they're going to call socialist...so let's not worry about what they're calling it. Let's worry if it's a good idea"

Now he says tuition-free public college will "turn off" half the country.



https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1200780485942579201

He went from arguing passionately for decriminalizing the border to saying that decriminalizing the border is a purity test,

"the kind of stuff that gets us trapped where we could wind up with nothing at all".



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