Warren’s being pilloried, but it’s her fault: W#hen she says “We’re going to raise taxes on the rich to pay for medical care for all,” she’s NOT saying:
a) “… but you, middle-class voter, will pay less in premiums and no longer psychotically get your health care form your employer!”
b) “… but you won’t pay more, it’s the Kochs and Waltons and Gates-es who will!”
c) " …and if we need more money, we’ll take it form the Pentagon, Oil subsidies and Polluters!"
But she won’t.
I was thinking about going Warren after Bernie’s Heart attack, but better someone with a recovering heart than someone with an absent spine.
Oh, and Mayor Pete and Andrew Yang should go jump in a lake and quit being distractions.
Mr. Biden remains the favorite candidate of older voters, but only 2 percent of respondents under 45 years old said they currently plan to caucus for him.
(emphasis added, as if it needed further emphasizing)
Dear DNC, do you want an enthusiasm gap? Because that’s how you get an enthusiasm gap.
The UK isn’t the only place where young people have to come out to the polls in force in the coming months. We’re now at a crisis point in both countries, and it’s their future on the line.
I don’t think that the DNC establishment will rig things against the progressive to the degree that Wasserman-Schultz did in 2016, but young people are watching. If the party screws around again in order to get Biden or Buttigieg or some other neoliberal-lite candidate elected it’s only going to alienate them further.
Probably a lie, but I can just picture some schmuck grabbing his kids’ candy, smiling at their objections and snarking, “Wealth tax!” before going to tweet about it.
Actually, I can imagine Republicans labeling every tax a “wealth tax” because words have no meaning/have whatever meaning Republicans give them: “It’s called a wealth tax because Democrats want to take your hard-earned wealth. They even call it a wealth tax! Can you believe it, folks?”
ETA: His follow-up, agh. The “just joking—why did you take my words seriously” defense. Awful.
