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And Elizabeth Warren Will Lead Us
She has the plans, she has the funds, she has the momentum and the time for a female POTUS has come.
If we learned anything from last night’s debates, it’s that Democrats don’t really know what they want.
More importantly, Democrats running for president don’t know what the voting public wants, or how to give it to them.
Should Democrats, provided they manage to wrest the White House away from the Trump administration in November if not before, expand on Obamacare or replace it with Medicare for All? Or should Democrats introduce a sort-of compromise: Medicare for All-lite; medicare for all who want it, or all who can afford it.
Elected Democrats, and Democrats who want to be elected, have a laundry list of other legislative priorities, too. Some are obvious and overdue; wage gaps that lead to systemic wealth inequality, criminal justice system reforms, environmental priorities.
Some are less so. It’s true that open borders, abolishing ICE, free college, a cancelation of college debts, reparations, abolishing the electoral college, federally funded political campaigns and other progressive passion projects might not have gained enough traction yet to achieve legislative viability in a bi-partisan Democracy.