NOT P but Joyce. Ulysses enters the US presidential campaign.

[Mark Kohut]

You're a big James Joyce buff. Is running for president more like Ulysses
 or Finnegans Wake?

Definitely more like Ulysses than it is like Portrait. Finnegans Wake is
dream speak. Ulysses is consciousness meeting reality. But here's why I
think Ulysses is extremely relevant. People believe Ulysses is this
complex, difficult, inscrutable text full of references. And it is a
difficult text, but its subject matter couldn't be more democratic. It's
about a guy going about his day for one day. That's the plot of Ulysses.
And, to me, that's what makes it very touching. You're in this guy's head,
and you're kind of seeing life through his eyes, and at the end through his
wife's eyes.

That's how politics ought to be, too. The reason any of this stuff matters
is that it affects us in the everyday. And I think the greatest literature,
whether it's Ulysses or Mahfouz, when it touches politics, it's about how
politics can make our everyday better or worse. And I think that same
understanding of the imperative and the primacy of lived experience ought
to be how our politics works.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26861236/peter-buttigieg-interview/