Pete Buttigieg Once Wrote a High School Essay About His Idol, Bernie Sanders. Tonight, He’ll Debate Him

2:47pm PST - February 7th, 2020    american idol - Time

Twenty years ago, a chubby and nearly unibrowed high school senior in South Bend, Indiana wrote an essay about his political idol, the then-57-year old Vermont Congressman who was unafraid to call himself a socialist. Tonight, after effectively tying the Iowa…