After disappointing finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire put her campaign on the brink, Elizabeth Warren has rebounded in a big way—and she couldn’t have picked a better time to make her comeback. According to CNN regarding Wednesday’s political debate, more than 20 million viewers watched it, making it the most-watched primary debate in U.S. history and led to a record round of fundraising for the Warren campaign.
That’s right. A full 20 million people got to see the return of Elizabeth Warren, the proud fighter for the poor and middle class progressives fell in love with years ago, the passionate technocrat, who could explain complex processes in simple, understandable terms while passionately and indignantly fighting against a rigged system in which outcomes for wealthy elites were predetermined in their favor.
Much has already been made of her evisceration of Michael Bloomberg in which, like a brilliant trial lawyer, she disseminated every evasive phrase and answer he uttered and turned it in to an indictment of Bloomberg’s character, highlighting the mayor’s troubling history with regards to women and minorities. But what she showed us—if nothing—else was if she could do this to Michael Bloomberg a flawed but highly intelligent man, think of what she could do to Donald Trump, A far more disgusting caricature of an amoral rich guy than Bloomberg ever could hope to be.
Make no mistake, Trump wants no part of Warren on stage. In the four years, we’ve been forced to watch this clown one thing is clear—powerful, smart women scare the hell out him. We’ve seen it time and time again with Nancy Pelosi the only person in the past four years who has made Trump squirm.
What’s more, while I like all the candidates over Trump, Warren is uniquely suited to dealing with Trump noxious personality. Why? because I believe at the core of Warren’s indignation is a deep morality and idealism. Something Donald Trump cannot even begin to fathom. When you combine that with her quick wit and intelligence it is easy to imagine how the debate would go. She would put his immorality on display and when he lied and evaded she would corner him and make him look absurd and then leave him sputtering in rage. it’s what she did to Bloomberg, who is neither as stupid nor morally vacuous as Trump is.
In short, Trump would be facing the perfect antidote to Trump-ism in my opinion a person with a strong moral center fighting for right and wrong with a brilliant grasp of policy to go with it. It’s everything Trump is not and it’s why I think we need it.
So while I wish she hadn’t kept the lid on this part of her personality as long as she did. She has persisted and it’s why I am all in.