In a stunning editorial, the editorial board of the Boston Globe today urged Sen. Elizabeth Warren to reconsider her decision not to run for president in 2016.
In its call for Warren to run, the Globe editorial board said that Democrats would be "making a big mistake" if they let Hillary Clinton get the party's nomination running unopposed.
"Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren can make sure that doesn’t happen. While Warren has repeatedly vowed that she won’t run for president herself, she ought to reconsider. And if Warren sticks to her refusal, she should make it her responsibility to help recruit candidates to provide voters with a vigorous debate on her signature cause, reducing income inequality, over the next year," the editorial board wrote.
The Globe's editorial board zeroed in on the growing gap between Democratic base voters and the politicians who represent them in Congress over the issue of income inequality:
"The Democratic Party finds itself with some serious divides that ought to be settled by the electorate. Some are clear-cut policy differences, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an enormous free-trade agreement with Pacific Rim nations that Warren opposes and Clinton backs," the editorial board wrote. "Even in areas where the candidates agree, there are bound to be different priorities: It’s hard to imagine a President Clinton defending and enforcing the Dodd-Frank legislation with as much vigor as a President Warren, for instance."
Indeed, the big-picture debate on financial regulation and income inequality is what’s most at peril if the Democratic primaries come and go without top-notch opponents for Clinton. While she has a great many strengths, Clinton seems far more likely to hew to a cautious approach on economics. Her financial backing from Wall Street, her vote in the Senate to reduce bankruptcy protections, and her past reluctance to raise capital-gains taxes are no secret. Nothing about her record suggests much gumption for financial reform or tackling the deeply entrenched economic problems that increasingly threaten the American dream.
RUN ELIZABETH RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read the Globe's editorial here:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/...