Nearly 400 people gathered at Washington Middle School Sunday morning to hear Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg speak.

The South Bend, Ind., mayor touched on a number of subjects, including patriotism and healthcare.

He asked the crowd to imagine waking up on the first morning when Donald Trump is no longer president.

“Our problems don’t end on that day – far from it,” Buttigieg said. “Our country will be divided, even more than we are now – polarized and worn down from fighting.”

He said it would take work to unite a country that is so divided.

“You cannot love a country if you hate half of the people in it,” he said.

Buttigieg said that Americans should come together through values they share.

“These are values that don’t belong to one political party or another,” he said. “We need a president who can unite Americans around those values.”

One of those shared values is patriotism.

“I’m not talking about small, cheap demonstrations of a president who thinks all you have to do to be patriotic and respect the flag is to hug it when you take the stage,” Buttigieg said. “Or a president who thinks it’s somehow pro-military to overthrow military justice and to pardon war crimes as if there’s no difference between an honorable soldier in warfare and someone who goes out and dishonors the American people and the American flag.”

He also talked about America regaining respect on the world stage.

“As an American, I never again want to see an American president laughed at by the leaders of the world,” he said.

One way, he said, is through taking steps to fight climate change.

“If we’re serious about national security, we’ve got to be serious about protecting our country’s future,” he said. “That is why we must rise up here at home and lead the rest of the world in confronting climate change as the global security threat of our time. It will be a good way to restore the credibility of the United States of America in the eyes of the world.”

Buttigieg also touted his Medicare for All Who Want It proposal.

“We need to make sure that there is no such thing as an uninsured American,” he said. “That is why I proposed Medicare For All Who Want It. We take Medicare, make it available to everybody and enroll anybody who is not insured.

“I say it’s for all who want it because I trust you to decide whether you want it. If you’d rather want to be on a private plan that you’ve got, that’s fine by me. I respect you to decide what’s best for you.”