Elizabeth Warren LAYS OUT How Bernie Sanders' Campaign Has CHANGED The Democratic Party

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In an interview with Mic, Sen. Elizabeth Warren describes how she thinks Sen. Bernie Sanders has changed the Democratic Party over the course of his 2016 campaign.

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1. Bernie NOT Hillary has changed the Democratic Party over the 2016 campaign.

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10. "...ALL Democrats agree that..." "but ALL Democrats agree..."

"...ALL Democrats agree that..."

Elizabeth Warren is speaking to both our unity on critical issues and how Bernie has sharpened and defined for us those issues and our goals.

She reiterates repeatedly that we all agree on important issues and that there is an enormous gulf between what WE stand for and what the conservative establishment and Kochtopus types are trying to do.

In her admiration for what Bernie has done, she speaks for many of us who believe Hillary would be the more successful president and for those who feel the Bernie is the better choice. From the beginning I hoped Bernie would accomplish what he has. You hoped he would accomplish what he has and become our nominee. Warren does not think the differences between us are actually as large as some imagine, and neither do I.

This next is a little touchy and I don't mean to offend, but just hopefully to inspire thought. Much as she admires what he has achieved as a candidate, she did not endorse him for President when it might have made all the difference.

[scscholar]

27. He didn't just sharpen

Geez

[anotherproletariat]

2. I love it! All the 'big guns' of the party are stroking the ego of the Sanders supporters,

setting themselves up to be trusted when the end comes. A couple weeks ago it was Biden saying similar things, but we all know that these are very loyal Democratic party members who have clearly been charged with uniting the party once Sanders finally decides that he has squeezed every bit of celebrity possible out of his campaign.

[bkkyosemite]

3. You really think his supporters are stupid...they are not....surprise.

[anotherproletariat]

8. I don't surmise anything. I'm just pointing out that it is a clear strategy constructed by

the Democratic Party elites. (I didn't mention anything about how Sanders supporters here on DU are falling for it.) I think it's great that the Dems have plans in place, knowing the harm that the prolonged Sanders campaign is doing to the party.

[bkkyosemite]

17. Prolong up to the convention Hillary Clinton. ..the harm thing is getting old.

[pangaia]

26. It is the prolonged Clinton campaign that is harming the "Democratic " Party.

She is a disaster............. capitalist

[drm604]

4. She hit the nail on the head.

He changed the conversation. I think that was his original goal anyway. I don't think that he thought that he'd ever do as well as he has.

[SheenaR]

9. This

Looking back at things like the NY registration deadline and the lack of preparedness for it, I see it as Bernie did not think his campaign would take the most famous woman in the world into mid May and beyond.

[drm604]

13. It says a lot about the mood in this country.

This country was ready for his message and the campaign took off almost on its own. Think about someone like him running seriously from the start of the campaign.

We need someone similar (Warren?) to run in 8 years (or maybe 4?).

[SheenaR]

14. Warren in 4 works for me

And then they can stop calling us sexist just because we do not like their particular candidate.

[drm604]

16. Can you imagine someone challenging an incumbent Hillary in 4 years?

If DU is nasty now...

[SheenaR]

22. Lol

[bkkyosemite]

18. I see it as cheating him out of votes...the establishment is at fault..always trying to

make it Bernie's fault. Ain't flying with him or his supporters.

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25. ...ALL Democrats agree..." ...ALL Democrats agree that..."

...ALL Democrats agree that..."

[PufPuf23]

11. You hit the nail too. Sanders changed the conversation. eom

[merrily]

5. Not only the Democratic Party, but U.S. politics. Maybe even outside the US, too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280109865 (Sea changes in US politics, thanks to Senator Sanders and his supporters)

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6. +1 yes!

[Proud Public Servant]

7. She's only right if

Bernie supporters remain engaged when (not if) Hillary is nominated and beyond.

The party has traditionally had a robust populist wing, and that wing has traditionally NOT run the party nor supplied its presidential nominee. But from (pre-VP) Hubert Humphrey to Ted Kennedy to Jesse Jackso to Paul Wellstone to Elizabeth Warren, that wing has been the party's heart and soul and my inspiration. The DLC tried to purge it, and very nearly succeeded. But some of us are still here, and we need all the help we can get.

So join us. Bernie's campaign isn't the end of anything, even when it ends. It's the beginning of a march back into the political mainstream.

[Jitter65]

12. Don't count on it. Change does not happen overnight. It's not like Democrats didn't already have

those ideas BEFORE Bernie came on the scene. You are trying to give him credit for other people's thinking. Blacks long before Bernie knew the justice system was rigged and had spoken out about it many times. Working men and women since the inception of this nation always lived with and protested income inequality...how do you think unions were born? What he changed is the opportunity for the RW to call the Dem party a socialist band of big government spenders weak patriots. Just listen to the conversations out there.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Yeah, like all the profiles in courage on marriage equality until the polling said it was okay?

It's pretty easy to see who leads and who follows. Same thing with marijuana legalization. Eventually the people will force the intransigent politicians to do the right thing, because the numbers will be too overwhelming.

But the good ones are already out ahead of the curve.

[bkkyosemite]

19. Bernie gets ALL the credit because he brought the issues forward that the greedy

establishment did not want to be involved with the things that would help the Average American!

[highprincipleswork]

20. Let me tell you, it can still use a lot more changing. Go Bernie!!!!!

[Gomez163]

21. Its very sexist to assume a man made a woman do anything.

[reformist2]

23. It's so obvious she sides with Bernie on everything, there's really no need to endorse him!

[silvershadow]

24. K&R nt