Warren lays out her requirement for next president
PHOENIX — Elizabeth Warren on Friday delivered a progressive manifesto, laying out a bullet-pointed list of what the movement stands for, and asked her followers to demand a president who fights against undue influence in Washington’s corridors of power.
In a Netroots Nation speech tailor-made to fire up the rising liberal base, Warren named names of the movement’s foes, ridiculing former Sen. Scott Brown’s as a diet pill salesman, Sarah Palin as a YouTube hack, and the Republican field as cowards in line with Donald Trump.
And while she didn’t name any of the Democratic presidential contenders, the Massachusetts senator did lay out one requirement for the next occupant of the White House.
“I think anyone running for that job – anyone who wants the power to make every key economic appointment and nomination across the federal government – should say loud and clear that they agree: we don’t run this country for Wall Street and mega corporations. We run it for people,” she said.
Warren also marveled at how much progress has been made since her first Netroots Nation, five years ago: the new consumer agency (which is, in large part, her creation), equal marriage in every state in the union, comprehensive health care reform, and most recently Confederate flags being taken down everywhere.
The progressive folk hero inspired a grassroots campaign that unsuccessfully tried to draft her into running for president, but she still is having a big impact on the race.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders is carrying the liberal torch among the Democratic field, and both Sanders and Warren (from the outside) have been pulling dominant front-runner Hillary Clinton to the left on social and economic issues.
On Friday, Warren, seizing her influence, laid out a path ahead for the progressive movement, which was also largely a condemnation of the Republican agenda. She called for help from workers unable to care for sick family members, a taxation system in which millionaires and billionaires pay the same rates as their secretaries, dignified retirement, transparent trade deals that work for workers, and relief for college students crushed by debt.
She attacked Republicans for standing in the way of this agenda.
“House Republicans may still want to fly the Confederate flag and Republican leaders may cower in the shadow of Donald Trump, but the American people understand that Black Lives Matter and America is not a country that stands for racism, bigotry or hatred,” Warren said. “To build an economy that creates real opportunity, that doesn’t lock up millions of our fellow human beings and that uses the talents of all our people, Americans must prove that on equality and justice, the American people are Progressives.”
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