Elizabeth Warren has a Hillary Clinton problem, not a sexism problem

Published January 2, 2019 6:36pm ET



Released on the morning of the single drunkest day in the country, Massachusetts senator and possible 1/1024 Cherokee Elizabeth Warren’s New Year’s Eve announcement that she’s formed an exploratory committee to run for president has not been met with much praise or fanfare across the Democratic base. Sure, the announcement trended on Twitter, but her bland announcement video felt remnant of a different political era, and her ill-advised Instagram live video, complete with a beer and a reluctant cameo by her husband, earned more mockery than compliments.

Naturally, the Atlantic’s Peter Beinart blames sexism. But Beinart’s lamentations ring more of relitigating the 2016 election than an actual argument that Warren has faced any appreciable amount of discrimination due to her gender. Warren doesn’t have a misogyny problem; she has a Hillary Clinton one.

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