Wait–am I a country bumpkin, a coastal “elite”, or a declining intellectual? I’m confused.
I thought I was a statist, or a warmonger, or something. Maybe WillF could post some sort of taxonomy for the fantastical liberals that run amuck in his imagination?
Point being, these century-old policy proposals were once sold to the rural Christian by the Bryanite wing of the party. Warren is the candidate of the Democratic self-styled intellectual. Bryanism has returned and its kind of still embarrassing.
Oddly, I thought Teddy Roosevelt was the big Trust Buster, and his cousin Franklin did the most for labor. But maybe I’ve just read different history books.
Being an intellectual isn’t “self-styled”, btw - it’s demonstrable fact.
Is your argument that the Bryanite wing of the Dem party did not, like Warren, favor breaking up big companies and engage in strong-arm union politicking? Because that’s what I said.
I find it an interesting and intelligent political strategy that Warren announced today that she won’t do big money fundraisers if she’s the nominee in the general election. Of course for Warren or any Democratic nominee is that the Democrats have Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama and Joe Biden (if he’s not the nominee) that can handle all the big money fundraising while the nominee can seem to be above the fray. It’s definitely an advantage for the Democrats with two ex presidents that were elected while young.
Bill Clinton may be toxic among some of the younger progressives but he can still draw a crowd among the 45 and over types who remembers the 1990s fondly. And, of course, they’re likely to have more money for a big dollar fundraiser than a recent college grad.
Unfortunately, you forgot to demonstrate any relevance to today’s world, or even suggest it.
You may be right about 2016 (we’ll never know for sure), but in that case, Biden’s gone a loooooooooong way down from 2016.
The past couple of weeks have been an opportunity for Biden to be everywhere, firing broadsides at Trump and his crew. Instead, he pops up briefly, fires a pretty good shot, then all but disappears for days.
ETA: At any rate, I’m not comparing Biden 2016 with Hillary 2016, but rather Biden as he is now. Gramps is just not up to this anymore.
Well, we are in a new Gilded Age, so the shoe fits. 
Who’s against giving workers the means to fight their own battles? Seems like a winner to me.
And who likes monopolies, other than the monopolists? Ditto.
The poster linked to an article about breaking up big companies and another about old-school labor politicking by Warren. Is Warren still relevant or have we moved on to the next clown in the car?
That some are interested in Warren’s primitive policies is kind of the source of my dismay. Thanks for another data point.
Have the primitive *problems *gone away? They have not. So …
Happy to give you one.
Speaking of ‘primitive’ things, do you use roads and bridges? Those of us who do must dismay you tremendously.
They were never problems. Bryan can be excused because he did not witness these past decades of plummeting poverty levels and increasing financial freedom. He had also not witnessed the rise and fall of so many giant boogeyman corporations like IBM and Microsoft which were supposedly going to take over the world but ended up losing market share to competition. Warren lives in a poorly written public school textbook.
If Warren was serious about going after the tech companies she could simply threaten to pull their military-industrial contracts. She has no appetite for cutting off the federal spigot to these coddled behemoths.
I was hoping that E.W. would run last time and I was quite disappointed when she didn’t. I’ve hitched my wagon to her campaign train all the way.
What does that have to do with what I’ve discussed or Warren in general?
While Obama is a more inspirational speaker, Warren’s resume is better than Obama’s was.
I think Trump shows that speaking in a way that motivates support is more important than skills and experience, so you’re probably correct, but I think “much, much stronger” is an overstatement.
Historically, in NC at least, the Fusion Party was destroyed by a violent coup led by white supremacists, who massacred black activists in Wilmington and ushered in Jim Crow. I think WF’s warning is apropos, but maybe not for the reason he means: it’s apropos because progressive forces are on the cusp of another move forward, and we need to take the lessons of the late 19th century to heart, and be on guard against violent suppression.
Warren had a viral moment at the LGBTQ-focused CNN Town Hall that is getting a lot of traction in my very heavily LGBTQ-friendly social media sphere.