It’s Elizabeth Warren’s party now! How to remake it in the liberal heroine’s image
At this point, it’s not entirely clear what the folks nominally in charge of this infamously disorganized party are trying to do by elevating Warren. Because the former Harvard Law professor has been prominent in liberal circles since the launch of her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it can be easy to forget that she’s only been in Congress for a couple of years. And coming as it does after a truly disastrous midterm showing, this seeming vote of confidence from Democratic bigwigs has the risk of being a “glass cliff” situation. My former colleague Brian Beutler, for example, has guessed that Senate Dem leadership may have opted to bring Warren into the fold because they’ll need a popular spokeswoman to deliver the next two years’ worth of bad news to the “professional left.”
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Still, even if Warren’s promotion isn’t motivated entirely or primarily by idealism and generosity, it could nevertheless be a major turning point for activists looking to push the Democratic Party in a more left-wing direction. After many years of kvetching about their paltry influence — and following decade after decade of enviously watching the conservative movement refashion the GOP in its own image — lefty ideologues and organizers now have the chance to turn Warren into a kind of trojan horse for a resurgent politics of economic populism (or, as it used to be called, liberalism). And if they adapt and adhere to the script used many years ago by visionary right-wingers, who famously responded to an electoral drubbing in 1964 by staying the course and propelling a true believer to the White House less than 20 years later, it just might work
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Perhaps more than anything else, though, what lefty activists should learn from their right-wing counterparts is this: In a dysfunctional two-party system such as ours, in which voters are perpetually unhappy and ready for any excuse to throw the bums out and start all over, it’s only a matter of time until the losers of yesterday are once again ascendant. And as the GOP has shown in the years since its back-to-back wipeouts in ’06 and ’08, responding to electoral defeat by moderating is no longer necessary, while moving further away from the center is no longer a death sentence. Now that they have a political superstar and ideological true believer as their behind-the-scenes agent, lefty activists with an eye on the long term have a chance to, in the words of Warren, “frame the issues for the next few elections” and ultimately make the Democratic Party truly progressive.
http://www.salon.com/2014/11/15/its_elizabeth_warrens_party_now_how_to_remake_it_in_the_liberal_heroines_image/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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In another lame attempt to lash out at liberals here 
What a shock that they are just lying, I mean who could have guessed all they are really here to do is hate on liberals. 
on behalf of Walmart's women workers, didn't she?
Its passage was followed by the only increase in median income in the past 40 years.
TPP would hopefully be more of the same.
If you repeat it often enough, maybe you'll convince some one.
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Let that one sink in. 
A weapon rarely seen around GD these days.
Almost forgot to post those links!
Elizabeth is perfect to build a 50 state strategy around.
...that the transparent honesty of both is a large part of this.
I'm certainly not knocking HRC, or any other Democrat for that matter. (Both Dean & Warren support HRC, and an increased role for Dean and Warren would be good for HRC, the Democratic Party, America, and the world.
An increased role for Warren and Dean will help whoever is the 2016 Democratic candidate, in my view.
Their presence and influence will inspire a demoralized electorate, generate support for Democrats across the board, and make it easier for other candidates to have the courage to do right.
The full throated patriotism of Warren and Dean will help Democrats across the board, including helping blue dogs win against Republican crazies.
A higher presence of Warren in the Democratic Party, and in the Senate, will be good for America, good for the Senate, and good for the Democratic Party, including blue dogs.
This is not about shutting out blue dogs. That is not Dean's approach, and it is not Warren's.
Elizabeth Warren and Howard Dean both support HRC, and will be immensely helpful to her.
Without the full throated presence and higher profile of Warren & Dean, blue dogs will be weaker against the GOP, not stronger.
Dean's approach is the 50 state strategy, and the abandonment of the 50 state strategy since he was replaced has been a disaster.
