The Populist Challenge: Moving On Up

MORNING MESSAGE
Robert Borosage
The Populist Challenge: Moving On Up

The editors of The Boston Globe called on Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president this weekend, joining over 300,000 “Run Warren Run” activists who have already built the largest field operation of any candidate in Iowa. ... The editors point to big issues that deserve a serious debate: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), enforcement of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, and the strategy for dealing with extreme inequality and the decline of the middle class. The Globe editorial is yet another indication of the populist moment. ... The reason for this populist moment isn’t the misery of the poor, or the decline of the middle class. The poor have ever been with us. And the middle class has been struggling since the 1980s. What is different now is that people are starting to understand that their struggles aren’t their own fault. (emphasis added)

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