What exactly was your problem with the “attacks” in the article Velocity linked then?
Yes; attacking the person rather than the issues can help out those operatives urging people not to vote at all, because ‘they’re all alike’ and ‘your vote doesn’t matter, because whoever gets in is the same old same old’ and ‘it’s all so sordid; really spiritual/noble/pure/cool people don’t vote.’
I’m hoping we give those operatives less help, this time around.
That is the gentlest of criticisms-and about an issue.
It is not enough to even count as a test of any sort, let alone the stress test I want to see her pass with flying colors.
HuffPost about the attacks on Warren:
I’m beginning to think her slipperiness on healthcare is a feature, not a bug. There’s a comfort in boldly talking about a universal plan, without the pain of nailing your face to the carpet on specifics.
Wall Street Democrats say they may support Trump if Warren is the nominee:
Warren will probably use this in her campaign commercials. I don’t know if these folks understand how useful this kind of thing is for Warren.
Exactly – “run on popular things and avoid saying unpopular things” is a pretty solid basic campaign strategy.
That article is hilarious - it may as well be a Warren commercial.
Unnamed hedge fund executive:
Well… yeah…
You mean the Obama policies that were in place for the longest bull market in history? That saved many of those very same banks from complete ruin?
2 very interesting articles on Warren from Vox:
At least for the moment, Warren’s ahead of Biden in the RealClearPolitics polling average, 26.6% to 26.4%.
In other words- they are dead even.
Sure feels like 2008. Hillary starting out with the big early lead but eventually Obama pulling ahead to the point of looking unstoppable. A few months from now, Biden may be nothing but an after-thought and Warren will have more or less wrapped up the nomination already.
It’s happening much sooner this time. IIRC, Hillary was leading Obama until Obama won Iowa.
Hillary, for all her faults, was a much stronger candidate than Biden is.
But Obama was also much, much stronger than Warren is.
I disagree. I think Biden would have beat Trump in 2016. 2020 Biden does seem to be weaker than 2016 Biden would have likely been, although I’m not sure by how much.
Breaking up big companies and strong arm labor politics. Yes Trump has returned us to 19th century politics. These are embarrassingly primitive proposals that could only seem sophisticated next to building a big beautiful wall.
The fact that such country-bumpkin-progressive policies are being supported by coastal “elites” is a sign of intellectual decline.
Super Tuesday, this time including California so will probably be decisive, is 5 months away. That does fit your timeline.