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Idk wtf king kreole is writing or any of you. Because Elizabeth warren hasnt done a damn thing.
"She did more than him to actually wield the levers of power in Washington to progressive ends, and she entered the game far later than he did."
For anyone reading this, no need to look up her record. She ain't done shyt.
The facts are that when it came time to back a progressive in 2016 Elizabeth warren proved who she was.
Now let's look at real consistency:
A lifetime.
He used hyperbole for sure. But Warren has a big feather in her cap which is the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau. The idea that Bernie wasn't in the trenches is absolutely revisionist though and comes from Clinton Camp rhetoric from last election. Here's Bernie fighting for Healthcare in 1993 (significant for more than one reason and also the article I grabbed seemed unbiased enough for all to find acceptable)...
HuffPost is now a part of Oath
In terms of wielding the levers of power, Warren is great strategically. But Bernie did pass more roll-call amendments than any of his cohorts during periods where Republicans were in power and well before he had the clout he needs to get bills passed outright. He was an outsider, he's still treated as such, the idea that he could magically manufacture consensus during the Third Way Democrat domination or the Newt Gingrich Republicans period on is fantasy and I don't think that's hard to see. He still got amendments passed though and even during this Trump administration; he worked with Ro Khanna and got a bill passed to stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia (Trump vetoed it of course).
Now for clarity's sake. None of this is to attack Warren, I disagree with her sometimes but same for Bernie. I think Warren is a great candidate with only a slight preference toward Bernie. But the attacks on Bernie seem to be based on narratives that aren't wholly true or are at a minimum disputable. Bernie managed to get things through at a time when neither party was on his side for most issues via roll call votes; He doesn't share the same strategy to get his agenda passed that Warren does but both have strategies that I think can work; and lastly, for the handful of "Bernie doesn't have a plan, Warren does" comments: Bernie dropped about 40,000 words worth of plans for addressing Climate Change, Criminal Justice Reform and Labor Empowerment over the last couple of weeks that I implore everyone to check out. The plans are laid out there for some of the biggest issues facing this country moving forward.
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