To boil it down, Mayor Pete has little to recommend him as a candidate, other than identity politics, the worst reason ever to elect someone. So he is being “hooted offstage”, because the very idea that a pipsqueak mayor whose electoral differentiator is that he’s gay is inherently arrogant and offensive.
The nation is in serious trouble on every level. Most people are exhausted of minority demands for special treatment when they refuse to respect the long-established foundational principles of the rest of society, whom they expect to pave their way. They are the ones preventing unity, like toddlers throwing poo in the dairy aisle.
I could not agree with you more on the folly of identity politics. Competence is not even in the top 10 qualifications for office, behind race, gender, orientation, wrong religion, etc.