Elizabeth Warren has made significant contributions to our country, but there’s something troubling about her as a potential president of the United States. She would not participate in a Fox News “town hall” because they give “money to the hate-for-profit machine” and a “megaphone to racists and conspiracists.” Huh? They gave megaphones to Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and others as well.
I’m no fan of Fox News, but the offers did provide some much-needed balance to their lineup. What I heard in her decision was a not-so-subtle “holier than thou” attitude on top of an odd strategic mistake – refusing a free audience with millions of Americans who feel left behind, the very people she seeks to lift up.
In response to her fellow candidates discussing policies that won’t require people to give up their current health insurance, she shot back, “I don’t understand why anybody goes to the trouble to run for president to talk about what we really can’t do.”
At our state convention, she proclaimed, “We can’t choose a candidate we don’t believe in because we are scared.”
There is, in all these statements, more than a whiff of a lack of respect for differing opinions and a framing of others’ positions as if she knows them better than they do. It’s offensive, and it’s no way to win back voters we lost in 2016.
I seek a nominee who will reach out to those with whom she disagrees rather than dismiss them and refuse even to share their stage.
REBECCA HUTCHINSON
Deerfield