Elizabeth Warren is the only candidate who is talking about real policy issues and not just hot-button reactionary topics.

She isn’t just responding to President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. That’s a good thing, even though I know she wants to spend hours explaining to the president that tariffs are actually a tax on Americans designed to change how and where purchases are made.

Take the newsprint tariffs from early in his presidency. Prices skyrocketed. American journalists lost jobs in direct relation to those increased paper costs. Canadians didn’t pay those tariffs. We did. Did it make publishers buy more paper from American firms? We tried, but American mills couldn’t meet the demand. The tariffs were finally lifted and we tried to return to former providers only to find that many of those mills had been repurposed to more stable paper products.


The president also talks about saving U.S. Steel even though the company’s stock price tanked due to the tariffs and hasn’t rebounded.


I don’t think FOX News would be as friendly to that quote. That’s another Warren point she is making. She is going to war with the right-wing media over their blatant role as presidential apologist. The best example had to be when a story claimed Trump lost a billion dollars in business and one of the friends on FOX and Friends praised Trump because he had lost so much money.

She was truly impressed.

It’s hard to stay positive in light of a Mueller Report, multiple other investigations and investigative reports that rarely seem to find silver linings in Trump’s cloudy distant and recent past.


She has a reason for not accepting the offer.

“FOX News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists, ” Warren said. “It’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.”


“Hate-for-profit works only if there’s profit,” she said. “So FOX News balances a mix of bigotry, racism, and outright lies with enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet.”

That’s pretty direct and unfortunately, it isn’t entirely inaccurate.

I can appreciate Warren’s effort in this fight, but she is running uphill with a couple of embarrassing controversies already in the young campaign season. Not even a dozen appearances with her dog can change how badly she looked after her blood test to “prove” her heritage and the resulting outcry from those on both sides of the issue.

Warren is a serious candidate and she isn’t just trying to say what Democrats want to hear. I can appreciate that and I like the fact that she is taking a stand and not taking advantage of a huge audience because it doesn’t fit in her ethical playbook.



With two dozen Democrat voices trying to be heard in the primaries, it won’t be the wonkiest policy producer that wins.





I can’t believe the Democrats have this many candidates and none that even appear to have a chance of beating an embattled incumbent president.
