Elizabeth Warren Offers Democrats More Than a 2016 Candidacy, She Offers a 2014 Agenda
from John Nichols at The Nation:
Detroit -- Elizabeth Warren says she is not running for president in 2016 – despite the enthusiastic “Run Liz Run” chanting that erupted when the senator from Massachusetts took the stage at this year’s Netroots Nation conference. But Warren came to Detroit with the platform on which Democrats should be running in 2016
And in 2014.
Warren is frequently described as a populist. And she can certainly frame her message in populist terms, as was well illustrated by the strongest statement of her Friday Netroots Nation address: “A kid gets caught with a few ounces of pot and goes to jail but a big bank launders drug money and no one gets arrested. The game is rigged.”
. . . What Elizabeth Warren brought to the Netroots Nation gathering was a progressive vision that is of the moment -- a vision rooted in the understandings that have been established in the years since the “Republican wave” election of 2010. As Republicans in Congress practiced obstructionism, and as an increasingly activist Supreme Court knocked down historic democratic protections, Republican governors aggressively attacked labor rights, voting rights and women’s rights. Citizens responded with rallies, marches and movements – in state capitals, on Wall Street, across the country. They developed a new progressive vision that is more aggressive and more precisely focused on economic and social justice demands, and on challenging the power of corporations and their political allies . . .
Warren’s Democratic Party has not fully recognized that connection – not by a long shot – but Warren gets it. And the response of the thousands of activists, organizers and communicators gathered at the Netroots conference suggests that “the base” is ready to rally around it . . .
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