What happened to Elizabeth?

[Sympthsical]

61. She undermined her own strengths, then got negative in an unappealing way

Let me preface that Warren is my number two after Buttigieg at the moment.

Warren’s strength is that she actually crunches numbers to see if solutions are feasible and workable. She hinged a lot of her candidacy on it. When M4A came up, a large component of the storm around it was that her numbers were supposedly wrong, that it would cost far more. She took a lot of damage there. Her credibility rests on the credibility of these plans she’s always touting. Undermine the plan and you undermine her. Unfortunately, too many Democrats took part in that one.

I think the stake in her campaign was raised when she tried to go negative. When she came out with “wine caves” she was roundly mocked all around the media and the internet. It was cringey clumsy. It was ill-done. When she got into that shitshow with Sanders, I think that was the end. Progressives don’t think for a minute Sanders is sexist. He encouraged her to run in 2016, for crying out loud.

It rang false, seemed desperate, and it looked like the kind of lashing out you see in a campaign that fears it is failing.

I still like her. I will still vote for her if Pete falters. But I really question her political instincts. On pure politics, she always seems to have the gun aimed at her shoes, pondering what kind of hole she could make.