Elizabeth Warren switched from Republican to Democrat after watching banks destroy bankrupt families
A former colleague of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren, said she shifted from conservative to liberal in a Damascene conversion after years watching bankrupt families pushed to the brink by big banks.
"She really did have a ‘Road to Damascus’ conversion when she saw the bankrupt consumers really were suffering—forced into bankruptcy by illness, firing or divorce—and not predators,” Calvin Johnson, a law professor and former colleague of Warren’s UT Austin in the 1980s, told Politico. “‘Nonpartisan’ means that families who have already been kicked in the gut over and over just get kicked a few more times so that a handful of giant institutions can boost their profit margins,” Warren told Politico. “This was raw politics.”
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