pete buttigieg. we are about to find out if he can take a punch. so far he s been able to skillfully, disarmingly go through all of this i was at an event with him on friday and a group of protesters were standing up and called him wall street pete, and he had a smile on his face and said that s what they used to call president obama and then he went to set up the consumer financial protection bureau headed by elizabeth warren. so we ll see how he handles the punch. we don t know. he s an undefined candidate. she s trying to define him. you see the orthodoxy on the left that only certain people are pure enough to stand, to stand up. and that s going to be the question, is whether that s where most of the electorate is. this is what we see playing out in the primaries and once we get into the general election the candidate tends to drift toward the middle so we can win over democrats and independents and even some moderate