It’s so strange seeing all this Warren snake talk. For a couple of reasons. First, she’s probably written the most extensive policies of any of the candidates. Her k-12 education reform was endorsed as a complete game changer by the American Federation of Teachers yesterday. Her doggedness in going after the banks and insurances companies, and the government agencies that regulated them post 2008 was impressive, particularly in asking both sides to account for why bailouts were so large. She is similarly the only candidate who has gone after big tech, the biggest threat to politics-economy-society (after climate change), golfing companies to account over abuses of monopoly power. Beyond all the superficial election positioning, this is someone with the cred.
As for positIoning, nobody has pivoted more than Buttigieg. He clearly started in the more progressive lane and then found that crowded. He probably had some Woodrow Wilson students run some analyses on the best spot for him to spot into. But he gets no push back for that. Why?
