THE PETER (BUTTIGIEG) PRINCIPLE. In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Laurence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Principle.

Exhibit “A,” at least for the moment, is the coincidentally named former Transportation Secretary Peter (aka: Mayor Pete) Buttigieg. For example, in September 2022, rail worker negotiations ...

fittingly in a person named Peter, at the Biden administration Department of Transportation. Secretary Pete Buttigieg has mishandled several crises that have come into his area of responsibility.