Elizabeth Warren and the Hippocratic hatch

In a year when American voters are longing for both change and normalcy, electability trumps all other arguments.
To think that now-former candidate Elizabeth Warren didn’t prevail in the Democratic primaries only because she’s a woman ignores a cocktail of other factors that would have been hurdles to any candidate, writes Lisa Van Dusen.
When Elizabeth Warren announced her withdrawal from the Democratic presidential primary last week, she included a shout-out to all the young girls she’d met along selfie lines whom she’d generously left with the verbal memento, “I’m running for president because that’s what girls do.” ...

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