2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Warren is Trying to Unite the Democratic Party, But All She's Doing is Betraying Progressives [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Warren has fallen, a lot, in my eyes, by safe sniping at Republicans rather than joining in the real fight, which for me is to return power to the people rather than the wealthy corporate funders who write the campaign checks for both major parties.
Attacking Republicans is pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel. Anyone can do it, whether they're DLC Democrats or Bernie supporters. In fact it is the favorite tool of corporate Democrats. Look at us, we aren't them, so you need to vote for us instead of them! At this point we should be well past that game, and many of us are.
The hard work is excising the corporate capture from our own party so we can once again be a viable alternative that represents the voice of the people rather than the smiley-face party of the oligarchs.
Warren has in the past positioned herself as our best ally in this work. Funny thing happened this election, she didn't show up in this fight, at all. We had a real knock-down primary where the monied Democrats were up against the populist side. Warren's response was to quietly lend out her staff to help campaign for Hillary on the ground in contested primary states, without making any statements about where she herself stood. The very definition of cowardly.
She appears to be resigned to fighting small winnable battles, so she can claim victory, helping her political career and keeping herself in the good graces of our corrupt party establishment.
I expected more from her. Of all the times to join in and help the little guy, this was it, and she was either on the wrong side of it or she was unwilling to help. I won't forget.