Pete Buttigieg Doesn’t Have a Time Machine

During the 2016 Republican primary, there was a “baby Hitler” moment. The Huffington Post asked candidate Jeb Bush if, given the chance, he would go back in time and kill Germany’s genocidal dictator as an infant, before he became one of the 20th century’s iron-willed monsters, thereby erasing Hitler’s crimes.

Discounting any of the various potential paradoxes and possible multiversal implications of the deed, Jeb Bush leapt headlong into this hypothetical (take your pick) DeLorean, phone booth, Tardis, or Wellsian steampunk contraption with a knife in hand. “Hell yeah, I would!” he said.

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Jack Butler is a former submissions editor at National Review.

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During the 2016 Republican primary, there was a “baby Hitler” moment. The Huffington Post asked candidate Jeb Bush if, given the chance, he would go back in time and kill Germany’s genocidal dictator as an infant, before he became one of the 20th century’s iron-willed monsters, thereby erasing Hitler’s crimes.

Discounting any of the various potential paradoxes and possible multiversal implications of the deed, Jeb Bush leapt headlong into this hypothetical (take your pick) DeLorean, phone booth, Tardis, or Wellsian steampunk contraption with a knife in hand. “Hell yeah, I would!” he said.