Elizabeth Warren is out of touch with the Democratic Party.

[Laelth]

11. Noam Scheiber, the Senior Editor of The New Republic, says this:

On one side is a majority of Democratic voters, who are angrier, more disaffected, and altogether more populist than they’ve been in years. They are more attuned to income inequality than before the Obama presidency and more supportive of Social Security and Medicare.1 They’ve grown fonder of regulation and more skeptical of big business.2 A recent Pew poll showed that voters under 30—who skew overwhelmingly Democratic—view socialism more favorably than capitalism. Above all, Democrats are increasingly hostile to Wall Street and believe the government should rein it in.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115509/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clintons-nightmare

No doubt, the party is divided, but Scheiber says the liberals are gaining strength and are likely to win.

Judging from recent events, the populists are likely to win.

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the party has changed far more over the last few years than is widely understood. Chris Murphy, the Connecticut senator, estimates that not too long ago, congressional Democrats were split roughly evenly between Wall Street supporters and Wall Street skeptics. Today, he puts the skeptics’ strength at more like two-thirds.

Make of that what you will. I think Elizabeth Warren is more in tune with the heart and soul of the party, as Scheiber argues.



-Laelth