Politico Opinion: One Big Thing the Dems Get Wrong About Warren

[JoeOtterbein]

[link:https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/07/media-biased-against-elizabeth-warren-229907|

The political establishment loves the center. But it’s the radicals who end up writing history.

By JOHN F. HARRIS November 07, 2019

Washington journalists these days are having many conversations with Democratic operatives and veterans of previous administrations that go something like this:

This is insane. Our party has a death wish. We are going to blow this election and give the country four more years of Donald Trump.

These downbeat Democrats are talking generally about what they regard as their party’s dangerous lurch to the left in the 2020 campaign. Most often these days they are talking specifically about Elizabeth Warren. And they are talking even more specifically about her embrace of mandatory “Medicare for All.” By these lights: The plan is wildly expensive, unrealistic, frightening to moderate voters in key swing states who want to dump Trump but need reassurance before empowering a liberal in the Oval Office.

It’s awkward to admit—would you want a loved one to date a “Democratic operative”?—but what these cynics and hacks and bed-wetters say makes sense to me. With the stakes so high in 2020, why wouldn’t Democrats play it safe? With Trump becoming more divisive by the day in positions and rhetoric, why wouldn’t Democrats run as uniters? Why not try to own the center?

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[brewens]

1. We couldn't possibly go as far left as the right will claim anyway. We might just stoke up

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some enthusiasm from people that would like to have what the wealthy have, a government that does good things for us. We've had 40 years of looting and it's time it was reversed.

[Mr.Bill]

2. I agree

but it might have been more fun to not tell them about it until January 21st 2021.

[customerserviceguy]

9. If you didn't run on it

you don't have a mandate to do it.

[Mr.Bill]

10. Every president does things they have no mandate to do.

Circumstances can change after any election.

[corbettkroehler]

7. Well Said! Let's Stoke Away, It's What Will Attract The Most Independents (eom)

[ancianita]

3. Strong and brilliant as Warren is, they're not wrong. The voters are the whole country, not us.

Warren wants to drive the country more left, full well knowing that it wants the center. But she's doing it anyway, which is part and parcel of her brilliance.

I'll vote for her over any centrist in the primary, knowing that she will be a Force within the party to get out the vote during the general, no matter who the nominee is.

[Ninga]

4. Spot on. Nt

[vsrazdem]

5. I disagree.

Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/majority-of-americans-support-progressive-policies-such-as-paid-maternity-leave-free-college.html

[msongs]

6. there'll be pie in the sky by and by nt

[PhoenixDem]

8. The media are correct on this one. n/t