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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.511.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Warren is the founder of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the senior senator from Massachusetts, and the author of the new book, “This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class.”You might have heard of her.Warren is also one of the Democrats most capable of defining the Democratic Party’s soul and message in a post-Trump era. In her book, she says she had at least one big disagreement with President Obama — a disagreement that speaks to the direction she wants to lead the party. Obama told Americans, “the system isn’t as rigged as you think.”"No, President Obama,” Warren replies, "the system is as rigged as we think. In fact, it’s worse than most Americans realize.”In this interview, we go deep into Warren’s view on how, where, and why the system is rigged — as well as what can be done about it. We also talk about whether fighting Trump requires matching his tone and tactics, how complex policies and processes create space for special interests to take over, and why Trump’s abandonment of economic populism hasn’t affected his support among his voters.Warren is an able, thoughtful advocate for one of the Democratic Party’s possible futures: becoming a party that represents the economic populism Trump claimed to champion, but quickly abandoned. But as she’s the first to admit, that won’t be easy.Books:“Evicted," by Matthew Desmond"Two Dollars a Day," by Kathryn Edin “The Little Engine that Could," by Watty Piper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Ezra Glancho, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:56.0

This is a fun episode.

0:58.0

We have Senator Elizabeth Warren on the show today.

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You might have heard of her.

1:01.0

She is a reasonably well known politician in American politics.

1:04.0

Senator Warren is the founder and also the innovator of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,

1:09.0

something I mentioned first in her biography because it is a frame for a lot of this discussion.

1:15.0

She conceived of an agency, wrote it up in a journal called Democracy,

1:20.0

and a couple of years later it was an actual government agency.

1:23.0

There are very few policy entrepreneurs that successful in the last generation.

1:27.0

And that experience I think is something that doesn't always get dug into,

1:31.0

but is very important for understanding her politics.

1:33.0

She's also the author of the new book, This Fight is Our Fight.

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