No, Klobuchar isn’t ‘homophobic’ for looking down at Buttigieg

Published February 20, 2020 7:42pm ET



Tensions flared between 2020 presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg at Wednesday night’s Democratic debate.

Reasonable people can see that Klobuchar’s clear disdain for Buttigieg is based on their competition for the same centrist voters and that he has surpassed her in the polls despite having much less experience and far less impressive qualifications than her. Identity-obsessed leftists looking to further fuel their victim narrative, though, view Klobuchar’s contempt for her inexperienced competitor as evidence that she’s actually secretly homophobic.

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