On economic issues, progressives are clamoring for Elizabeth Warren’s anti-bank crackdowns, while Clinton is taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms for speeches — in which she assures them she isn’t anti-bank. Her recent comments about needing all that dough to buy “houses” doesn’t help.
On social issues, she may have recently evolved on same-sex marriage, but she hasn’t done much to make a convincing (or even coherent) case for why, as we just heard in her testy interview with NPR’s Terry Gross. And where she once praised her then-President husband for helping to make abortions “safe, legal and rare,” Democrats have since removed that very language from their party platform, finding it a little too conciliatory.
And on civil liberties, millennials — a generation of 80 million people — are largely disappointed in an Obama administration that has spied on its allies and its own citizens, carried out an unaccountable drone war, and prosecuted whistleblowers under the Espionage Act. Will Clinton back her old boss on those programs and policies knowing a huge swath of voters are on the other side of the issue?
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