Since Elizabeth Warren announced her withdrawal from the race, her significant following has been waiting patiently for an article which does her candidacy justice. Well, here it is from Salon by Amanda Marcotte. She extolls Warren’s virtues and discusses why Warren qualifies, in her opinion, as a once in a generation candidate. Warren surpassed every bench mark the party, the pundits and even the public demanded and it still was not good enough.
Marcotte believes that Warren stood head and shoulders above the rest of the field. She sparkled in the debates, had developed the most detailed plans, explained herself in easy to understand terms, destroyed Bloomberg, and was peerless when it came to the power of her intellect. Yet the author laments, with anger, that weaker, less capable male candidates bested her on the road to the White House. Marcotte calls this another example of the power of misogyny so rampant in our nation.
Her political gifts were not lost on the formidable opposition she faced beyond her fellow candidates. Actually, the prospect of her winning the nomination prompted a tsunami of trepidation in the hearts of the Wall Street financiers, the bankers. corporate boards, the CEO’s with mind boggling incomes and lobbyists. They all understood that if Warren became the President she would use her bully pulpit and financial talents to wreck some of the many ways that these manipulators were accumulating wealth on the backs of average Americans.
And the wealthy class was simply not going to let Warren ruin the good thing they had going. Beginning last summer the business channels began having financial experts on their shows explaining why Warren would be bad for business and how her wealth tax policy would be unfair to the rich.
And then when Bloomberg threw his hat in the ring. pundits said it was because Bloomberg thought that Biden was too weak to beat Trump. That is no doubt true….but it is not the entire story. He also entered the race because he, along with and the rest of the monied interests,. believed that Warren was becoming too strong.
The fears she raised in the corporate world, and Wall Street speaks to her impressive administrative skills and unmatched competence.Even in the U.S. Congress, she had politicians worried that she might upend the cozy relationships thay had come to enjoy with their donors.
After reading the article below, plenty of Warren skeptics will say that the writer was merely overwrought about Warren’s departure from the race and resorted to hyperbole to make her case. And Warren fans could easily come back and say that Elizabeth Warren was profoundly the best candidate. So much so that even the smug wealthy class, who thought they controlled the levers of government power with their money, were shaken by what Warren promised to deliver.
So her withdrawal is a loss for all Americans, but especially the millions she would have helped. Sadly, as the headline reads. “We didn’t deserve Elizabeth Warren”.