View this email in your browser April 19, 2022 ELIZABETH WARREN’S MAGICAL THINKING In an article for the New York Times , Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren claims to have the answers to her party’s woes. There are good reasons to be suspicious of Warren’s plan. Not least Warren’s own political performance in recent years. Despite plenty of very flattering media coverage, she lost every primary or caucus she took part in during the Democratic presidential primary. She somehow managed to finish third in her home state of Massachusetts. But leaving Warren’s track record to one side, the biggest tell in her plan to save the Democrats is the absence of any kind of trade offs and the failure to grapple with any kind of inconvenient truths or uncomfortable facts. Warren’s preferred policies just so happen to also be the recipe for electoral success. What a happy coincidence! So what is Warren’s solution? Deliver on an ambitious progressive agenda — spend big ...