The symbolism of the night was intentionally thick: Warren spoke from a podium that, I had been told, was built by a bespoke Brooklyn builder out of wood salvaged from labor hero Frances Perkins’ ho
mestead. The podium stood 46 inches tall—for the 46th president of the United States—and was inscribed with messages of support. The crowd chanted “this is what democracy looks like,” which it very well might some day but doesn’t right now.
Warren spoke at length about Perkins: after watching more than a hundred workers—most of them immigrant women—die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Perkinsand took a number of positions within city and state government to secure safety measures for workers. She eventually became the Secretary of Labor for Franklin D. Roosevelt. At one point, Warren described the activist as a “persistent woman” a call-back to the candidate’s one-time campaign slogan.
Warren’s various plans would require a near-total dismemberment of the structures on which our politics have been built in my lifetimeand reorienting such a massive amount of money would doubtlessly make our country a better and more equitable place. Warren, like Sanders, is allying herself with social movements to build power and credibility on her way to the least movement-oriented office in America.
dependent as it is on these mass movements, is still maybe the most singular, least natural thing a person can do.Which is the contradiction of it all: if either Warren or Sanders does win the presidency, those people who elected them will, in many waysadversaries as the candidates conform to the presidency and, as always, break promises. That’s how movements work: to apply and keep pressure on powerful institutions.
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