Elizabeth Warren Takes Aim at Moderates and Generates Chants of ‘Warren 2020’
While Ms. Warren first rose to stardom on the left because of her populist jeremiads against concentrated economic power, she sought to use her remarks in Atlanta to broaden her indictment against what she calls “a rigged system.” Expanding her signature attacks on Wall Street and its political influence, she said
that women, African-Americans, undocumented immigrants and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were all suffering from fundamental inequities.
“The Democratic Party isn’t going back to the days of welfare reform
and the crime bill,” she said, highlighting measures Mr. Clinton signed into law as president that are reviled by much of the left.
While not invoking former President Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton by name, Ms. Warren sent an unambiguous message
that she believes the Clinton effort to push Democrats toward the political center should be relegated to history.
Ms. Warren lampooned a recent New York Times opinion article, “Back to the Center, Democrats,” by the onetime Clinton strategist Mark Penn
and the former New York City Council president Andrew Stein.
