My senior senator, Elizabeth Warren, is famous because she is an unapologetic liberal who minces no words. I didn’t expect her to outshine Al Franken, but she has.
In her youth, she was a Republican. She came to her liberalism by looking at the facts and questioning her own assumptions—initially about poverty and Welfare. She did not let her preconceived notions block her from the facts.
She knows how to speak to different audiences, is a very good speaker, and knows what’s appropriate for the moment without changing her core message. She speaks plainly when plain speech is warranted, gets more in-depth when time allows, and cuts to the chase quickly when she has all of 30 seconds.
Frankly, she’s also channeling the political left inside the Democratic Party in a way that we haven’t seen in decades, Bernie’s run for President aside. We’ve had too many years of center-right moderates called “liberal” by the so-called liberal media, so seeing an actual liberal is galvanizing.
She’s also not a policy lightweight. For all that this is her first elected position, she spent a long time teaching at Harvard School of Law—you know, where several other elected officials earned their law degrees—and was the driving force behind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
I’ve been aware of her slightly longer than much of the general public—I enjoyed her appearences on Bill Moyers’ shows as she was a thoughtful speaker. I was impressed with her then, and am more impressed by her now.
Read other answers by Jacob Sommer on Quora:
- Can US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) do more to improve her home state and institute more policies in favor of the public or run as the President of the United States and fix America's amenable problems right from its source?
- How do we bring back the political moderate in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives?
- Does it take courage for a politician to go against the establishment and endorse a candidate like Bernie Sanders?
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