Which is the exact reason she must set one - Congress is going to water down every policy before passing it, so your starting point needs to be the actual best solution not some pre-watered-down “best thing we might be able to pass if the other side was reasonable”
I think the notion of a single axis is at fault here (or more specifically, it is used as weapon by those looking to exploit tribalism). Warren is not “on the left” in the same sense as Marx or even Bernie. She is painted with the same brush because her opponents would prefer to run against the strawman. But her policies are designed to preserve a capitalist, market-based economy in a world where runaway inequality and increasing automation are threatening the core elements of the market (investment and labor specifically).
A wealth tax isn’t Marxism, it’s more like Feudalism, an attempt to enforce a little bit of noblesse oblige.
Breaking up Facebook isn’t Marxism, it’s Teddy Rooseveltism.
Free college isn’t Marxism it’s… the exact same as our current system of free k-12, but expanded to meet the demands of modern technology. Same for universal pre-K.
Only Medicare for All is actually a socialist approach to a sector, but the reality is that healthcare is a cost borne by all even in our current privatized system. No one calls it socialist to say that government should run the police or the military, because there are clear problems with allowing the market to decide where the troops or cops go. This is at least as true of healthcare as it is of police protection.
If Democratic voters elect a leader who isn’t elected President by the rest of the country, the problem is the Democratic voters, who voted wrong, not the rest of the country - the rest of the country voted properly, because the Democrats’ wrong voters preferred a choice that didn’t appeal to the real population.
Lol. Trump beat all the republican candidates, but only Hillary could have lost to him. And she only got the nomination because the system was rigged to keep … someone (McCain?) … from running against her. Now that the system isn’t rigged for Hillary we must… nominate Biden or we’re making the same mistake?
This is the thing people are arguing against, though, the idea that those states are centrist because they are “purple”. They aren’t centrist, they are blue collar (in the rust belt) and split between less-affluent bible-thumpers and more-affluent elitists (in the others). The way to get their votes isn’t to turn all the dials to “milquetoast”.
No it isn’t, as the Biden “corruption”, Hillary emails, and Kerry “swift boating”, show. It is very easy to drag you opponent’s so-called “Normalcy” down to cloudy doubty levels, and if that’s only thing they have, then the status quo seems safer. Elect Trump - if he was really all that bad they would have convicted him during impeachment.
