Elizabeth Warren's Big Ideas Have One Big Problem
Kudos to the senator for laying out detailed policy proposals. Too bad none of them are practical.
Building a very expensive child-care system?
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Elizabeth Warren, now experiencing a boomlet in early primary states, has a lot of far-reaching policy proposals -- and those proposals have a lot of admirers. They’ve given her “momentum,” reports Michael Scherer in the Washington Post. In the New Yorker, John Cassidy writes that “the ambition and level of detail in Warren’s plans have put her at an advantage.” Warren’s ideas have even won some praise on Fox News. Tucker Carlson said that sometimes “she sounds like Donald Trump at his best,” which was meant to be a compliment.
But the more big ideas someone has, the more likely it is that some of them are very bad ones. It is a potential that Senator Warren has realized. And some of her ideas are downright demagogic.