As I have said before, Elizabeth Warren is my conditional favorite for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, with Bernie Sanders in 2nd place. Liz is well known to progressive activists, but for the most part, the general electorate have never heard of her, because they are so damn ignorant, politically. I’m pleased to see that she has been making such a good impression that she is rising, and not just in the polls.
There was a time not so long ago when leading Democrats warned that Elizabeth Warren’s “fantasy-based blue-state populism” risked leading the Party to ruin.
But in a revealing tell of how far her campaign has come since its early February launch, some unlikely voices in the center of the party are growing more comfortable with the idea of Warren as the nominee.
It’s a sign of how the ideological lanes of the 2020 primary have blurred and overlapped and of the steady progress Warren is making as a candidate. But it’s also a statement on Bernie Sanders, Warren’s top rival for progressive votes. Sanders continues to face significant resistance from within the party — and nowhere more so than among the moderates and establishment players who blanch at his talk of democratic socialism.
Warren, on the other hand, is gaining traction among those who once rejected her muscular vision of liberalism. She’s drawn notice for her wide-ranging “I have a plan for that” policy playbook, which has just enough growth-and-opportunity, center-left measures to earn her a serious look from former detractors. The Massachusetts senator may be out of sync with party centrists, but she’s drawn at least one sharp line with Sanders that is resonating with prominent moderate voices as she surges into the top tier in national and early state polls.
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Here’s her presentation at the Poor People’s Campaign.
Is it any wonder that she’s on the rise?
Liz is just as much a democratic socialist as Bernie is. She just avoids the label, because Republicans have spread so much bogus propaganda about it.
A true progressive that can also attract center-left moderates has to be a plus for thje Democratic Party and the nation.
