n early January, President Joe Biden called a Cabinet meeting in the West Wing of the White House. Over the holidays, a wave of flight cancellations by Southwest Airlines had left thousands of Americans stranded at airports for days. The face of the government response on cable news had been Biden’s Transportation Secretary and onetime rival for the Democratic nomination, Pete Buttigieg, who had been one of the Administration’s most visible talking heads for months. Multiple clips of Buttigieg holding his own against
