...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...continues warning of the rising threat of white nationalism, telling voters in Iowa over the weekend he believed that it was the most deadly form of terrorism in the United States.
"White Nationalist violence has killed more people on American soil than any other source of terrorism," he told voters in Shenandoah, Iowa, on Saturday. "We got to name that, confront that and say that is not us."
The audience of Iowa Democrats applauded and cheered Buttigieg’s statement.
Buttigieg did not compare statistics between violent attacks from white nationalists in the United States and attacks conducted or inspired by radical Islamic holy warriors such as the 2,977 Americans killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the San Bernardino shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, or the shooting at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas.
The South Bend mayor frequently warns about the existential threat posed by white nationalists as he continues his run for president.
"It could be the lurking issue that ends this country in the future if we don’t wrangle it down in our time," he told ABC News on Saturday.
Buttigieg’s warnings about white nationalism frequently fit with his message of how Democrats will keep America more secure than Republicans.
In March, he accused President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
of failing to protect America from the threat of white nationalism in an interview with the Intercept.
"He is failing to protect us from the clear and present dangers that white nationalism poses," Buttigieg said, arguing that Trump was "probably sympathetic" to their ideology.
He also indicated in an interview with Buzzfeed in March that Trump supporters were "complicit" in the rise of the threat posed by white nationalists.
"I think the moment you come on board with a project like the Trump campaign or the Trump-Pence administration, you are at best complicit in the process that has given cover for the flourishing and the resurgence of white nationalism in our midst," he said.