AS WE HAVE just learned, Deval Patrick’s initial posture as a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president is the diametrical opposite of his initial posture as a candidate for the 2006 Democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts. In early 2005, as Patrick was about to begin his first campaign, he was little-known in […]
Ralph Whitehead
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, Politics
Warren the redistributionist
THE CURRENT ISSUE of The Atlantic carries an article by its national editor, Franklin Foer, entitled “What’s Wrong with the Democrats.” In it, he argues that the Democratic Party should become a party of liberal populism. He devotes part of the piece to Massachusetts’s own senior senator, Elizabeth Warren, because he likes her version of liberal […]