There was more to Elizabeth Warren than a cultural style: she seemed to her fans uniquely suited to a rare emergency moment in American politics as the hyper-competent and courageous analyst of our system’s dysfunction, ed_kilgore writes
Many saw in Warren the rare opportunity to fix things. Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP/Shutterstock The moment it became apparent that she was finishing third in her home state’s presidential primary Tuesday night, the end became near for the campaign of Elizabeth Warren — a campaign that once looked like it might lift her right to the nomination and perhaps the White House, where her universally admired intellectual skills and powers of empathy could have been fully put to the test.
It is clear that Warren had trouble building the kind of broad support among racial, ethnic, and income groups that in their different ways Sanders and Joe Biden both had. Her support was generally concentrated among upscale college-educated white professionals, whom Matt Yglesias referred to as living in “a bubble,” perpetually favoring wonky “wine-track” candidates who couldn’t win.
Warren’s appeal to a certain sort of politically engaged Democrat is that she combines bold progressive goals with extensive experience navigating U.S. institutions and detailed plans for bureaucratic reform. It’s the best of both worlds, ambitious and pragmatic.But there may not be all that many Democratic primary voters who want those two things together.
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