We should learn to quit underestimating economic populists.
Trump won his 2016 victory in large part because wide swaths of the American public felt that they are gettin’ SCROOOOOOOOD economically by the status quo.
Most of them frankly are ambivalent on what’s done to fix it. They could just as easily gravitate towards Warren’s solutions as to Trump’s.
Some of hers (like lining-up bankers for public floggings in Yankee Stadium) frankly sound pretty good to a whole lot of people.
> We should learn to quit underestimating economic populists. <
Yep. Can you imagine Warren saying this:
I will forgive all college loans. I will not tax earned income below $50,000. I will make social security payments tax-free. And I will pay for it all by reining in the big banks.
Well, I can imagine Warren saying that. And then it’s not so hard to imagine her actually winning.
(Ugh. I have just given myself a tummy ache.)
She talks a good anti-banker game, but I think the bankers already dug deep into her family’s ancient Indian burial ground and found enough skeletons to keep her in line—before she won the U.S. Senate seat from MA.
They didn’t get to be billionaires by being dumb.
I have no idea what the skeletons are—but that is how the game is _always_ played in the Swamp.