From the left: Elizabeth Warren’s Shallow Populism
Elizabeth Warren just doesn’t get it. Nevertheless, she persists in pretending she does. At The Washington Post, Emma Green reviews the Massachusetts senator’s new book, “This Fight Is Our Fight,” a titled that “could conveniently double as a slogan for a national campaign.” Yet it’s an incomplete diagnosis of the Democratic Party’s struggles and how to fix them. Warren embraces “good old-fashioned economic populism,” but doesn’t really explore “why middle-class voters would choose Trump or whether their anger might be about more than the economy.” That’s because “Warren sees the world through the narrow lens of economic interests, ignoring the deeply held values and beliefs that often determine people’s politics.” It’s “condescending, but more important, it limits Warren’s understanding of America — and why her party has failed so badly.”