Sen. Elizabeth Warren is on the rise, gaining in the polls and seeing campaign crowds outstrip expectations. And if you’re a progressive, whoever your candidate may be, Warren’s campaign model of focusing on policy and refusing to sell access to wealthy donors should be a bright spot in this primary season.
Voters attending a Warren campaign event cited exactly these things in talking to The New York Times about her appeal. It is, said college student Joel Williams, 20, “The specifics that really go to the heart of people’s frustrations with the system as it is.” Retired lawyer Susan Conroy, 71, told the Times that “She’s got plans, and people are hungry for knowing, ‘Well, what are you going to do about it?’”
It’s not just Iowa voters at a campaign stop, either: “Top leaders at the Service Employees International Union, the influential labor group with almost two million members, have pointed to Ms. Warren’s ascendance as a reason to slow their primary endorsement process, according to people familiar with the deliberations.”
There’s a long campaign season yet to come, and every Democrat in the race outstrips Donald Trump on policy and independence from the whims of the wealthiest, but policy and no special treatment for millionaires is a model we should want to see succeed from some candidate, sometime.
