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Publisher of Model Citizen http://modelcitizen.substack.com  🏙 Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute.

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    1. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

      Will Wilkinson  🌐 Retweeted David Brooks

      I obviously agree with @nytdavidbrooks' main point here. I'd like to add a couple thoughts...https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1184985279700131840 …

      Will Wilkinson  🌐 added,

      David BrooksVerified account @nytdavidbrooks
      If it comes to Trump vs. Warren, the only plausible choice is Warren. Over the past month Trump has given us fresh reminders of the exceptional ways he corrupts American life. You’re either part of removing that corruption or you are not. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opinion/trump-warren-2020.html …
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    2. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

      I have serious misgivings about a number of @ewarren's plans, but I think it's important to keep it in context. In terms of overall policy, I'm closest to @MichaelBennet. I think he's quietly setting the do-able legislative agenda for the next Democratic administration.

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    3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

      I think Brooks is right that Warren's platform, as presently articulated, will have a hard time generating durable progressive-moderate coalition support. But I think she's pragmatic. I also think she's currently trying to win a Democratic primary.

      6 replies 5 retweets 147 likes
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    4. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

      Because Rs are more unified and further to the right than Ds are to the left, it's more common for Republicans to run hard right in the primary and pivot to the center for the general. Dems tend to run more moderate in primaries because they can, and it makes the pivot easier.

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    5. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

      Because the left is fired up, it's made a more R-style primary strategy feasible for Ds, and it's working for Warren. But I've yet to see any reason to think she won't pivot if she locks down the primary. Her studied reticence about tax hikes suggests she will.

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      Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

      Yet I see a lot of never-Trumpers, who are totally accustomed to R primary-to-general pivots, acting like they don't know how this works, and that primary Warren will be general Warren will be President Warren.

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        2. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          Some of this is just strategically performative, to create the perception of demand for a moderating general election shift. But I also see what looks like naive belief in the naive ideological purism of a very savvy politician who was a Republican until her 40s.

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        3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          Second, Warren's stated legislative priorities are pro-democracy, anti-corruption reforms that are utterly necessary. This ought to be everyone's priority. I don't agree with every detail, but she's better than anyone on the structural issues & perverse incentives in the system.

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        4. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          I think this needs to be stressed, because this sort of reform is truly badly needed, deserves bipartisan support, and I worry that efforts to cast Warren as a dogmatic radical encourages a future GOP agenda of McConnellesque stonewalling.

          8 replies 32 retweets 241 likes
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        5. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          This IMO poses a bigger risk than anything she might be able to actually achieve in economic policy. E.g., M4A and the wealth tax seem unlikely even with unified D control.

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        6. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          I don't love Warren's trade policy, but I also worry less about it than a failure to pass basic electoral and anti-corruption reform.

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        7. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          Rs err by viewing the prospect of a progressive D administration as the mirror-image of a conservative R administration. The D coalition is far more ideologically varied and requires a lot of negotiated compromise to come to consensus. Never-Trump R's should take heart in that.

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        8. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          Last, I think Warren's diagnosis of the structural problems in our political economy is broad-strokes correct, even if I disagree with many of her prescriptions. Diagnostically, she's not all that different from @lindsey_brink and Steve Teles in "The Captured Economy."

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        9. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          Because I think a bunch her plans aren't likely to be politically feasible, a Warren administration offers a big opportunity for skilled moderate legislators like Bennet to fill out her framework with more legislatively do-able (and IMO substantively better) alternative proposals

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        10. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          From my perspective, this is not such a bitter pill to swallow.

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        11. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 18 Oct 2019

          I'd like to see my never-Trump friends doing less to make it toxic for Rs to cross the aisle and vote with moderate Ds under a Warren administration, and doing more to develop and promote alternatives to her plans that can break the logjam of polarized legislative impotence.

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