blasio election in new york prove that. and this is where the party should be. what positions have warren supported that really get these left wingers excited? as kim says, she s an economic populous. she s basically a single issue candidate if she runs for president. she s all about consumer protection. if you look at her record in the senate isn t that populous? it s populous in new york with de blasio but i m not sure it s popular in the middle class which is suffering now. i think they just want a job. isn t it also income re distribution? she supports a whole liberal economic agenda. she does but she s also a political novice. she also has no foreign policy experience. i think she might play well to the harvard campus but i m not sure she played well to the rest of the country. if you re a republican, you might be all for elizabeth
democratic party really lies with a freshman senator from massachusetts. we re back with kim strousle and wall street journal editorial board member mary kissle also joins us. kim, start with you, what s behind the warren boom? the argument is if you look through the history of the democratic party, there s always these flashes of enthusiasm for these populist anti-wall street candidates. some of them, most of them, have always flamed out because they do tend to appeal to only a small part of the base. campuses and white liberal, cultural liberal. but not necessarily with minorities or the working poor. their argument, new republican argument is that has changed, the combination of the 2008 financial crisis and barack obama as president has shifted the party. they re ready and eager for a candidate like warren. certain be thithings like the b