Susan Sarandon speaking at a Bernie rally: ““He is not someone who used to be a Republican.” This was a not so veiled attack on Bernie’s behalf.
Warren used to be a Republican. But, Warren wasn’t following her parents lead or just conforming to the politics of her state. Oklahoma was mostly a blue state while Warren was growing and she has said her parents were New Deal Democrats. It was not until 1996—when Warren was 47 years old and just got a job at Harvard —that she changed her registration from Republican to Democrat. She does not talk about her Republican past in her books.
Warren on why: “I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore.”
Is it a legit attack on Warren that she used to be a Republican? After all, Reagan used to be a Democrat when he was elected President. Does it really matter?
Or does the reason why she chose to be a Republican tell us something insightful about Warren?
Discuss.