Who’s Afraid of Pete Buttigieg? Apparently, No One.

1. Pete Buttigieg

Not attacked.

The thinking going into Wednesday’s debate was this: Pete Buttigieg’s sharp rise to the top of Iowa and New Hampshire polls in the past week suggested that those chasing him in those states, who find him irritating to begin with, might apply the same sort of relentless scrutiny that they applied to Elizabeth Warren in the October debate. So it was, in the Surge’s opinion, kind of weak, and indicative of the disgraceful anti-fun tenor in the primary right now, that they didn’t. Both Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar, two candidates with a compelling interest in curtailing Buttigieg’s Iowa rise, passed on direct opportunities to call him a horrible dweeb who, were it not for white male privilege, would be exiled to outer space work colonies or a college town in Indiana. That Buttigieg was barely touched, though, isn’t necessarily a great sign for him: It shows that the field doesn’t view him as a significant long-term threat.

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