Elizabeth Warren is getting much smarter. Unfortunately, since she’s running in the left lane, she is still forced to take some silly and dangerous positions.
But quite a while back she dumped the lethal “socialism” baggage and says she’s “a capitalist to my bones.” (NY Times). And now she’s pretty much squeezed out of the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. This is the only appearance they make on her website:
That includes an Ultra-Millionaire Tax on America’s 75,000 richest families to produce trillions that can be used to build an economy that works for everyone, including universal childcare, student loan debt relief, and down payments on a Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
That means she has gotten a lot more serious about really getting something done. But Medicare for All could still kill her as it is opposed by every hospital in America (Sanders’ plan would put them all out of business) and it would take away the insurance plans of about a 100 million Americans who are happy with them.
She will be accused of moving to the right, but she’s not. She’s just figuring out how to get something done. And she has done a lot of figuring. The New York Times says:
The sheer volume of her plans, and their detail and variety, is forcing her rivals to play catch-up and stake out their own positions.
Stay tuned
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