I was a supporter of Elizabeth Warren, but I don't think I want her to be Veep. I think it needs to be someone younger. Warren SHOULD however be at the center of all policy making decisions of both the Biden Campaign and hopefully a Biden Administration. I've been flogging the idea that Biden needs to pull Schumer into his administration in whatever way works and then elevate Warren to Senate Majority Leader.
The reason why is that America is going to need a MASSIVE rebuilding effort. Whenever we emerge from this, we are going to need to completely reshape America's economic and social systems. It's going to be 1933, and we need to be ready for that. The only person remotely ready for the policy dimensions of this is Elizabeth Warren.
Take "The Green New Deal." It's a bumper sticker, not a program. But it could become a program of wide-ranging infrastructure and energy work that could completely reshape America's power usage while putting the millions of angry white, male high school graduates to work. What's more, own the damned thing. No hiring of private contractors; put them to work for the US government. Make broadband internet a public utility that reaches into poor and rural neighborhoods...and put the federal government's name on it.
We will need to rebuild the economy in a way that puts equity and a competent government response at the forefront. Now is the moment to undo the Reagan Revolution and return to the Party of FDR. Warren is the perfect person to write the roadmap.
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