Liberals have many ways of describing presidential aspirant Elizabeth Warren. Some choose to highlight her status as a feminist and female candidate, some her supposed “wonkiness” and imaginary policy chops. Others focus on a certain historical comparison to a past president liberals adore.
“Elizabeth Warren has a plan to finish what FDR started,” reads a glowing recent headline in The Nation. Meanwhile, at Bloomberg Opinion, writer Noah Smith lauds Warren's “coherent, unified program for transforming the U.S. economy” and praises her as “the closest thing modern American politics has to a successor to FDR.” These are just two examples, but it's been a common theme of the Democratic primary to date for progressive commentators to draw comparisons between former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Massachusetts senator turned 2020 front-runner.
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