The Myth Of Pete Buttigieg, ‘Moderate’

1. But let's start with health care, where Buttigieg has rejected his prior embrace of the socialist-favored Medicare for All in favor of a glide path to Medicare for All that, The Washington Post reports, hinges on supercharged version of [the] unpopular Obamacare mandate. The individual mandate, you might recall, was the most hotly debated aspect of President Barack Obama's radical takeover of the American health-care system, and was repealed by the 2017 tax-reform bill.
2. On immigration, Mayor Pete glide-pathed away from decriminalizing the border toward refocusing prosecution resources on real criminal threats and amnesty for illegal immigrants who have not committed serious crimes. He also wants to eliminate the five-year waiting period for green card holders to get welfare, withdraw regulations that restrict or deter access to that welfare, and expand access for illegal immigrants to get taxpayer-funded college grants they don't need to pay back.
3. But just what is so traditional centrist or moderate about Mayor Pete? From health care and abortion to guns and immigration, and from the Supreme Court to the Electoral College, the man is decidedly a radical.
4. At the same town hall, Mayor Pete called late-term abortions hypothetical. On the sixth day of Advent the month prior, he told a seven-year-old girl he's all in for abortion.
5. “For a party that associates itself with Christianity, he sneered in a June debate, to say that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages, has lost all claim to ever use religious language again.” The Christian God, of course, is on the record supporting laws, nations, and borders, but it was a good line and the applause was raucous.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/03/the-myth-of-pete-buttigieg-moderate/