The Left’s Best Chance to Win With Warren or Sanders Is a Solidarity Ticket
It doesn’t matter which is at the top of the ticket. These two need to come together to beat back the centrists.
With Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren solidly in the top tier of the Democratic presidential primary contenders, the left has its best opportunity in generations to actually win the presidency.
Policy ideas that were completely shut out of the national political conversation just a few years ago now anchor the policy platforms of not one, but two, major candidates. The left should be ecstatic and leveraging that momentum into a cohesive national movement. Instead, far too many on the left are risking it all by succumbing to the narcissism of small differences between Warren and Bernie.
However, there is a solution: the solidarity ticket.
The president controls the broad-brush focus of American politics and rarely the nuances of policy — like the length of a Medicare for All phase-in or the exact size of a wealth tax. And on those broad-brush agenda items — an economy that puts working folks first, a government that’s more transparent and accountable to the people, an America that is more generous and welcoming — Sanders and Warren are in lockstep.
