Elizabeth Warren's 'electability' isn't the problem
, is just a reworking of the old “likability” question that dogged Hillary Clinton. “Electability” has become the new heavily gendered code-word for the belief that white men with supposed broad-based appeal are the only ones who can win elections.“How Electable Is Elizabeth Warren, Anyway?” which featured this extremely dumb analogy:
That doesn’t mean you can’t take it into account anyway; professional sports teams can’t know in advance which players will be stars, but it’s still worth scouting them and trying to select the prospects with the best chances. It would be stupid to decide that since No. 1 picks sometimes turn into busts, and undrafted nobodies develop into stars, you might as well just pick a prospect who seems cool.
Chait goes on to dissect her chances, which in his mind require her to moderate her progressive stances. “At the moment, I’d feel very nervous betting the future of American democracy on Warren’s ability to defeat Trump,” he concluded. He then added, through gritted teeth I imagine, “But a lot can change in a year, and it’s not hard to imagine the Warren of 2020 as a potent challenger.
But Chait is not the only one who has cast doubt on Warren’s electability in this way. According to thea “working-class problem,” which is only a problem if one thinks “working class” means “white.” Warren needs to, Leonhardt wrote, “win back working-class voters who swung to Donald Trump in 2016” and not, as others
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