Posted on 11/21/2016 11:27:05 AM PST by heterosupremacist
In the days since Hillary Clinton’s stunning electoral defeat to Donald Trump, the vacuum she left atop the Democratic Party hasn’t gone unfilled.
Elizabeth Warren has moved aggressively to occupy the space, a timely reminder to the party and its most ambitious members that all roads to 2020 — not to mention 2018 — go through her.
More than any other high-profile Democrat, the Massachusetts senator and liberal hero has gone out of her way to appear in Washington headlines nearly every day since Nov. 8. From a series of public appearances across town to letters from her Senate office to private Capitol Hill meetings with fellow elected officials, Warren is making clear that she intends to use her brand of no-holds-barred liberalism to illuminate the party’s path ahead while it embarks on a protracted period of soul-searching.
“This is a moment that cries out for Sen. Warren’s fiery leadership, and she is bringing the fire,” said Ben Wikler, the Washington director of MoveOn.org. "Progressives are beleaguered, they need a call to action, and she’s delivering it."
Her message: While Democrats can try to find common ground with Trump on certain issues, it’s more important than ever for the party to assert itself against the president-elect every step of the way, from loudly holding him accountable for his “drain the swamp” rhetoric to vigorously opposing his appointment of “a bigot beloved by white supremacists."
In Warren’s estimation, the time for mourning is over. Clinton — who Warren endorsed after her primary against Bernie Sanders — and the 2016 election are in the past. The future is now, and it requires that Democrats understand how Trump’s economic message appealed to voters Clinton couldn’t reach.
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After “Crooked Hillary” - they are now going to try to go with Fauxahontis Warren.
Smart power!
YES!!! The new leader for the Free S*$t Army. Go Liz Go
Hide the Firewater
Apparently “Corrupt Screaming B*tch” is now part of the job requirement in the Democrat Party.
Building the new Democratic Party around Warren is like building your NBA team around a 38 year-old center
PLEASE, someone ask Liz about her Cherokee ancestors! I want to see her face when some reporter reminds her that IF she is Cherokee, her ancestors likely owned AFRICAN slaves and lived as aristocrats who started the KKK in Oklahoma, known as the Knights of the Golden Circle.
Yeah, fills the void. She’s just on her FIRST YEAR of Social Security, fresh blood.
Sorry, too late. lol
MA politicians (led by Warren, but she has a lot of company) are working overtime to marginalize themselves. My state will not fare very well over the next 4 years — if any government money CAN go to another state to achieve a desired goal, it will. MA will get only the leavings, because our elected politicians have no interest in serving the citizens of the state. Their only interest is in making a national name for themselves as opposition to the big bully.
She is 68 years old. Can’t take questions from the press. Says the same tired old speech over and over again. Has not passed or authored a single piece of worth wile legislation. Utterly useless as a senator.
And everything that’s wrong about the Democratic party summed up in a six-word headline.
Pocahontas!!! Wow! Dems are batting a 1,000.
Yeah, that’s it - in 2020, run a 71 year old screaming progressive as your nominee. That will really bring middle class Americans back into the Democrat fold.
Fauxsquaw is on the warpath.. The truth is not threatened. In fact it is never even in the same room with her.
Politico always speaks with “forked tongue.”
We can only hope this is true. The Democrats turn to the likes of Warren and Ellison.
This will assure Republican dominance for decades.
obama took them too far left and lost the house, then the senate, and then the White House, and now they want someone just as radical on the left to take them in the future LOL.
Elizabeth is as big a Zero as Obama and Hillary!
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