In the Sanders/Clinton battle for the presidential nomination, Elizabeth Warren stayed on the perimeter. She wasn’t quiet, that’s for sure. But she was the only woman in the Senate not to endorse Hillary, no doubt frustrating many women. She didn’t endorse Bernie, either, making many in the Bern crowd angry. She was threading the needle, as few can do.
Warren has now embraced Hillary, which seems appropriate, and is campaigning aggressively with her. This is accompanied by considerable speculation about whether Hillary has the vision, and perhaps the chutzpah, to step out of her cautiousness and tap Warren to be her vice-president. And Warren has been the chief Twitter thorn in Trump’s side—an important job these days.
But beyond the presidential maneuvering, Warren is articulating a brilliant (if not obvious) critique of what ails our economy, and it is not just the banks. As Paul Glastris wrote in the Washington Monthly, Warren has:
“…. extended her critique to the entire economy, noting that, as a result of three decades of weakened federal antitrust regulation, virtually every industrial sector today—from airlines to telecom to agriculture to retail to social media—is under the control of a handful of oligopolistic corporations. This widespread consolidation is ‘hiding in plain […]
I wish Liz. Warren would have stuck with Bernie because his ideas are closer to hers than Hillary’s. Bernie was the real winner in the race, except the votes were not counted properly because of all the fraud at DNC and the voting machines’ malfunctioning. THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED! I will never vote for that liar Hillary. Even Hillary’s former boss said she was fired a while back because she was a liar and a cheat and some other superlatives. Hillary is not trustworthy any more than her A**hole husband, who began the destruction of our country with NAFTA, and other mistakes. Obama was no better, either, and I knew it as soon as he chose his staff when he got into office. I’m fed up with American politics, and I’ve been around long enough to know why and how we were all deceived.