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Democrats Have Questions. Elizabeth Warren Has Answers.
The party's best communicator knows best.
Not shy.
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There are two questions that Democrats must resolve as they confront unified Republican control in Washington. Neither should be all that difficult.
The first is the much ballyhooed dilemma of identity politics versus class politics. It's true that Hillary Clinton ran a campaign -- "stronger together" -- that emphasized identity or, more accurately, identities. Her message was designed to contrast with Donald Trump's crude racial division, not his crude economic nationalism. Clinton's voluminous economic policies, which lacked a thematic frame, were lost in the effort to expose Trump as fundamentally unfit for office.
