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For starters, I don't take stridency to be a good marker of radical critique.
I find that where they depart, Warren's plans would more fundamentally restructure capitalism in American and Sanders plans.
I find that where they depart, Warren's plans would more fundamentally restructure capitalism in American and Sanders plans.
1. On labor law reform they both support card check. (but are silent on repealing Taft-Hartley or addressing franchise workers or fake independent contractors) BUT Warren is calling for labor representation on the boards of large corporations.
2. On antitrust, Sanders has voiced support for greater antitrust enforcement, while Warren has started fleshing out a neo-Brandeisian rethink of antitrust.
3. On trade Sanders wants to close tax loopholes and giveaways and some other boilerplate fair trade stuff ...
... Warren is proposing those things as well as a huge restructuring and investment in high paying domestic production with her Green Apollo/Industrial Mobilization/Marshall plans.
Further, she is proposing that taxpayers maintain a revenue stream of earning back to the federal government on profits from taxpayer-funded R&D. And reorganize departments and agencies to one Department of Economic Development focused on good jobs.
4. On taxes, people can disagree on whether her wealth tax or Bernie's estate tax do more to start to unwind wealth inequality and concentration, I think her wealth tax is more radical, though I think we should do both.
But her Real Corporate Income Tax is more radical than anything I'm aware that Bernie is proposing.
5. Sander proposes a Jobs Guarantee which is a great slogan, but I think bad policy. I put more stock in her focus on aprenticeships/retraining and massive public investment in building housing and green energy as a jobs program.
6. They are both proposing universal childcare and free public college, I think she goes further with debt cancellation - I don't think of debt cancellation as particularly radical in restructuring the economy.
7. I'll grant that Bernie's support for Postal Banking goes further to help low income Americans on financial issues than anything I'm aware she is actively promoting, but she DID create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
8. Healthcare is the one area where Bernie's plan is clearly more thorough-going because Warren doesn't have a plan. But because Sanders has so thoroughly won that argument inside the Democratic Party, that's the area I'm least concerned.
The bottleneck on how quickly we get to M4A isn't a Democratic president, it's Joe Manchin and Susan Collins.
9. Sanders is a redistributionist at heart and Warren is a predistributionist in orientation. It might be the case Sanders would redistribute more resources from the top to the middle and bottom, but that's not clear at all.
But in terms of getting under the hood of the economy and changing how it operates to serves the bottom 80% before taxes and transfers, Warren is much more radical than Sanders.
Wealth tax, workers on corporate boards, reimbursement for public investment in R&D, massive public investments in industrial policy, clear neo-Brandeisian approach to antitrust.
It's not even close.
It's not even close.
Update: She's a co-sponsor of a M4A bill in the Senate.
Update 2: I forgot about Bernie's new employee ownership plan on the way. That could be a big deal and might be radical depending on what it turns out to be.
