The Vast Majority: “Elizabeth Warren Can and Should Do Better on Foreign Policy" with Sarah Lazare

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🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Warren is, by American political standards, a very strong presidential candidate. She has taken up a robust domestic social-democratic agenda — one that, while not as strong as Bernie Sanders’s, is pretty damn good.

Foreign policy, however, is a different story. Here, Elizabeth Warren is far from the most hawkish in her party. But she still leaves much to be desired, as Sarah Lazare recently wrote in a piece titled “Elizabeth Warren Can and Should Do Better on Foreign Policy.”

Sarah Lazare is a web editor at In These Times. You can read her piece on Elizabeth Warren’s foreign policy here.

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1:07.0	Welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jacobin managing editor Micah Eutricht. The first
1:18.3	donation I ever gave to a politician was made in a previous political lifetime.
1:24.0	I remember sitting in my apartment watching an ad for Elizabeth Warren's 2012 Senate campaign,
1:29.0	where she talked about how business owners didn't make anything on their own.
1:32.0	They used highways and water-in-based. business owners didn't make anything on their own.
1:32.8	They used highways and water infrastructure
1:36.0	and public transportation and all kinds of other goods
1:38.9	that were built by the public with public money.
1:41.9	So it didn't make any sense for business owners to act like they had
1:44.8	pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and didn't owe the rest of society anything.
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