Senator Elizabeth Warren has been telegraphing her 2020 intentions for some time now, and this has meant her doing more than merely pounding the table over equity-based compensation plans. Her brand of populism is no longer just a bloodless appeal to economic interests. It's about identity, too.
In a revealing interview with New York Magazine's Rebecca Traister, Warren demonstrated what she thinks her voters are after: identity politics.
In Traister's telling, Warren was “shocked into a new relationship with feminism” by the 2016 campaign. But she has chosen to broadcast her feminist bona fides not by championing herself and her issues set as a model for societal progress.
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