Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), one of America’s most beloved progressives, addressed the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, in what turned out to be an awkward evening of pro-Bernie Sanders supporters jeering at speaker after speaker.
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She called the former Secretary of State one of “the smartest toughest most tenacious people on this planet, and “a woman who fights for all of us”.
Rather than being forced into playing a supporting role as a vice-presidential nominee, Warren could be headed for a long tenure in the Senate as the party’s moral arbiter of all things related to Wall Street – pressuring a President Clinton to keep her promises, or as a high-profile warrior against a President Trump.
She laced her remarks with references to Clinton’s running mate, senator Tim Kaine, who got boos at the start of the convention when his name was mentioned.
The liberal favorite and MA senator said “there’s lots of wealth in America” but “it isn’t trickling down to families like yours”. “I will not accept it”, Trump said. “We trusted you.” Warren continued, though. At a debate in January, Sanders ripped his primary opponent, saying, “I don’t take money from big banks”.
And she hit out at him for trying to argue that the “problem with America is your fellow Americans”, referencing how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had fought against this very tactic.
Clinton’s proposals are an extension of President Barack Obama’s two terms in office: tackling climate change, overhauling the nation’s fractured immigration laws, and restricting access to guns.
Calling Trump out on making his fortune by inheriting his Dad’s riches and swindling people, she said Hillary instead has been someone who has fought for children, for women, for healthcare and for human rights. “And why would he be?” The Republican nominee often casts himself as the last hope to fix a rigged political system. She wondered, “What kind of man does that?”
“Elizabeth Warren really went after Donald Trump based on the idea that he is an uncaring opportunist, who does not have any interest in anyone else, especially when it came to the housing crisis”, Foreman said.
“Trump thinks he can win votes by fanning the flames of fear and hatred”, she said.
Warren, for her part, has received plaudits for her willingness to defend herself and Clinton against Trump’s rhetorical attacks.
She went on to critique his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Stein is a movement figure with movement aesthetics: she sleeps on the couches of supporters and makes personal calls for small donations; she represented, as Sanders did, a certain political innocence.
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She hammered Trump, going through a litany of subjects including his business bankruptcies.
