It may work for awhile, but sooner or later, the novelty will wear off, and if he lasts long enough, he will come up against his Waterloo from Trump Tower.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto...
From link:
A self-described progressive, Buttigieg has called to abolish the Electoral College system, supports a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and thinks that climate change is a national security threat.
In another MSNBC interview in February, Buttigieg said that socialism is a word in American politics that has basically lost all meaning and has been used as a kill switch to stop an idea from being talked about.