Robert Reich’s advice to Hillary Clinton: Ride the populist wave.

[elleng]

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich is not running for president, but he thinks any Democrat who is – including his “old friend” Hillary Clinton – should worry about Republicans outflanking them on populism.

Reich, now a professor at the University of California Berkeley, first met Hillary Clinton when she was a freshman at Wellesley and they marched in civil rights demonstrations together. He met Bill Clinton around the same time at Oxford, when they were both Rhodes Scholars. He went on to work on both of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaigns, and joined the administration.

In the Clinton cabinet, he was seen as the ideological counterweight to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs before joining the administration and then returned to Wall Street afterward.

So, if Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, will she be more in the Reich or Rubin schools? “It’s not clear yet. We’ll find out. I think she has that choice,” Reich told msnbc.

If she wants to ride the populist wave, Reich said, she needs to focus on growing economic inequality, wage stagnation, and the decline of the middle class. While he said her husband could get away with “alluding” to those issues, “now the situation has changed. It’s got to be central.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/robert-reichs-advice-hillary-clinton-ride-the-populist-wave?CID=SM_FB

[cprise]

1. "she’s unlikely to ever endorse (reinstating the Glass-Steagall banking regulation)"

Karma Karma Karma Cha-melee-onnnn...

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Sure she will ..

[LawDeeDah]

3. Here's some surfing music for Hillary riding the wave:

And a commentator on her victory:

[davidpdx]

4. I highly doubt she'll take Reich's advice

even though it is pretty good advice. If she decided to back those issues and take a more moderate foreign policy stance I think it would help her a lot.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Populism doesn't fill campaign coffers

If she does attempt it, she will struggle with it, but she knows she only needs to play this until the primaries are over. I like Hillary a lot, but advising her to pretend she is something she isn't is not in anyone's best interest.