Paul Krugman’s latest editorial op-ed comes right up to the edge of endorsing Warren, arguing that she’s gaining in the polls because her plans are both progressive and smart. Here’s a sampling:
Warren, by contrast, has been rolling out substantive, detailed policy proposals — many, many substantive, detailed policy proposals. Traditional punditry says that this should be a turnoff, that voters’ eyes will just glaze over at the proliferation of white papers.
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What Warren gets is that serious analysis is a lot more favorable to a progressive agenda than “Serious” conventional wisdom…. As a result, Warren has been able to lay out plans that are very progressive but also well grounded in evidence and analysis.
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We don’t yet know whether this constituency is big enough to be decisive in the Democratic primaries. But if it is, Warren has a plan for that.
As they say, read the whole thing.
Want to know what all these plans are that they’re talking about? For most of them, you can read them directly on the Warren campaign’s Medium account. (My favorite one of her plans, for economic codetermination—that is, that employees should be guaranteed board representation in large publicly-traded companies—isn’t even on that list, because it came out before they started posting them there.) Or you can read this handy list (also incomplete—it’s just impossible to keep up with her.)
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(Minor) update
Check out this other diary by @bobburnett on a similar topic: why he thinks Warren’s smart policies are what it takes to win the primary.