Well worth reading. A few people I hold in high regard are skeptical about the criticism aimed at [Pete Buttigieg], and see it as crypto-anticatholic and/or crypto-homophobic. It’s important to be sensitive to those dynamics; and the fact that rural Iowans supported him marks a sea change. That said, I trust him less by the day. When you strip away the mellow style and manners what’s left isn’t much: a calculating, high-minded splainer who’s light on detail, heavy on plutocratic pals, and palpably nastier as his ambitions become more real.