{"id":39136,"date":"2020-03-06T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39136"},"modified":"2020-03-06T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:38:22","slug":"i-wish-she-had-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/i-wish-she-had-won\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish She Had Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m still in a state of mourning over the loss of the Elizabeth Warren candidacy.&nbsp; She was my choice for the Democratic nomination, and I shall dearly miss her campaign.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" title=\"0306LizQuits\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0306LizQuits\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0306LizQuits.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Senator Elizabeth Warren entered the 2020 race with expansive plans to use the federal government to remake American society, pressing to strip power and wealth from a moneyed class that she saw as fundamentally corrupting the country\u2019s economic and political order.<\/p>\n<p>She exited on Thursday after her avalanche of progressive policy proposals, which briefly elevated her to front-runner status last fall, failed to attract a broader political coalition in a Democratic Party increasingly, if not singularly, focused on defeating President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Her departure means that a Democratic field that began as the most diverse in American history \u2014 and included six women \u2014 is now essentially down to two white men: former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Warren said that from the start, she had been told there were only two true lanes in the 2020 contest: a liberal one dominated by Mr. Sanders, 78, and a moderate one led by Mr. Biden, 77.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that wasn\u2019t right,\u201d Ms. Warren said in front of her house in Cambridge as she suspended her campaign, \u201cBut evidently I was wrong.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/05\/us\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-drops-out.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel Maddow interviewed Liz in depth last night.&nbsp; Here are five excerpts from that interview.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QkAn3cs9fBE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In The Selfie Line: Americans Needing A Government On Their Side<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QkAn3cs9fBE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Liz was the most compassionate candidate in the race.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajKhDLpYFFM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Warren: Just A Little Longer Before We Have A Woman In The White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ajKhDLpYFFM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When I was a 1960s new-left protestor, I used to say that I would live so see a woman President, and a black President. I may not have more than three years left. May God grant that I live to be more than just half right.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DeB_UJBeGg4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren Takes Credit For Tanking Bloomberg On Purpose<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DeB_UJBeGg4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank you for that, Liz!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GcmYbHkdTqk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Coronavirus Incompetence &#8216;Like Its Own Natural Disaster&#8217;: Warren<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GcmYbHkdTqk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sorry, but calling it coronavirus is an error. COVID-19 is Trump Virus. It is merely speeding up the way Republicans will tank the economy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6U735_23SIE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Warren: Time To Think More Creatively About &#8216;Organized Nastiness&#8217; Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6U735_23SIE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I experienced plenty of organized online nastiness from Bernie Bros in 2016, because I changed my support from Bernie to Hillary, after Bernie asked his supporters to support Hillary, as she had clinched the nomination. The Bernie Bros were waging a write in campaign that had no chance to succeed. This problem is not new and it is clearly getting worse. As a Bernie supporter, I beg him to disavow these bullies, who are acting like Republicans, and remove them from his staff.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We all owe Liz Warren a debt of gratitude.&nbsp; I grieve that US voters are too stupid to see that she was the best choice we had.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still in a state of mourning over the loss of the Elizabeth Warren candidacy.&nbsp; She was my choice for the Democratic nomination, and I shall dearly miss her campaign. Senator Elizabeth Warren entered the 2020 race with expansive plans to use the federal government to remake American society, pressing to strip power and wealth <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/i-wish-she-had-won\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3753,3716,3714],"class_list":["post-39136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-rachel-maddow","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}