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Elizabeth Warren’s political problem is she spent years as the Democratic leader of the fight against Tim Geithner. That’s not a fight Democrats want to admit happened or needed to happen.
To explain a bit more clearly, Elizabeth Warren fought against Obama’s Wall Street friendly policies. She understood the Obama years were a catastrophe. But it was mostly under the radar.
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You will not find a more brutal attack on the Obama administration’s Wall Street friendliness than this 2014 Warren speech.
Warren has used politically messaging that the Republicans are the sole party at fault. It maintains her popularity with Democratic voters but is inconsistent and confusing.
Warren bet as nearly everyone did that Clinton would win and she would have to continue fighting the Geithner-ites. It was an error in retrospect but there was reasonable logic.
Most of these ‘problems’ were not created by Warren, but are a result of a Democratic Party that is institutionally incapable of honest assessments of the Obama years.
I am a huge fan of Warren and I wish she were clear about what a disaster Obama was. She isn’t. Neither is Bernie. No one is.
No elected Democrat can say the obvious. So we’re stuck trying to divine clues.
No elected Democrat can say the obvious. So we’re stuck trying to divine clues.
Yes. Obama used his popularity among Dems and his ability to destroy the funding base of Dem-leaning nonprofits to destroy any ideological rivals. But also the Dem voters are who they are and they didn’t want to hear it.
I don’t recommend attacking Obama if you want Democratic votes. It’s just that he did a bad job and so getting Democratic votes requires not being straightforward about that.
Warren blocked Larry Summers from becoming Fed Chair. That is so important. But she can’t use that to get votes from Democrats because that sounds like an attack on Obama.
