Democrats try to talk down a solid blue-collar economy

By Washington Examiner

Published June 27, 2019 3:29am ET

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Democrats try to talk down a solid blue-collar economy — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., center, speaks during the Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Art, Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Miami, as from left, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., former Texas Rep. Beto OâRourke and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. | (Wilfredo Lee/AP)

If the premise of an argument is false, what does that tell you about its conclusions?

This is the problem facing Elizabeth Warren and other leading Democrats after the first presidential primary debate. Warren, Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke, and other candidates all apparently believed that in order to sell their socialism, they needed to establish the premise that the Trump-era economy simply isn’t working for anyone besides the filthy rich.

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