Virginia Heffernan: Mayor Pete has the pedigree to clean up after Trump. But is that enough to win in 2020?
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Oct 18, 2019
3 minutes
A day will come when this long national migraine is over.
Or, if you like: A day will come when the national kidney stone that has brutally ravaged America's psychic innards will have passed. Does that go too far?
In any case, at some point, President Trump will be gone.
We got this reminder in less physiological terms from Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and presidential candidate, at the Democratic debate Tuesday night.
Buttigieg, who was virtually unknown on the national stage
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