by Bruce Barry, Tennessee Lookout, April 8, 2025 - Joining the ranks of prominent national Democrats parachuting into red parts of the country for town-hall-style pep rallies, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren popped into town last weekend to headline a buck-up-the-blue gig at Nashville’s Pearl-Cohn High School gym. A crowd of 1,500 or so despairing Democrats were on hand to receive a collective transfusion of progressive gusto delivered by a skilled celebrity political phlebotomist.
Actually, the despair was already in temporary remission even before Warren took the stage, given the timing — many ventured on over to Pearl-Cohn already jazzed by the anti-everything-Trump “Hands Off” rally in Centennial Park earlier that afternoon. ...
I didn’t come away sharing that optimism. ... Here are the things that troubled me about Warren’s appearance. ... the slapdash DOGEcropping of federal bureaucracy may be feckless and pernicious, the motivation behind it is politically popular ... troubled by all the things that Warren didn’t talk about. No discussion of immigration and culture-war issues ... No mention of party leadership’s complicity in propping up Biden and preempting a nomination contest. ... I faulted Warren above for lacking depth, but beyond that I found aspects of her remarks to border on infantilizing. ...It’s as if in deciding to fly down she thought to herself “OK, I’m heading to ignoramus-laden Tennessee so I’ll need to dial down the rhetoric to hayseed.” ... The Warren appearance was explicitly billed as a town hall, but a town hall is an audience-question-driven conversation, not stump-speech bloviation followed by a quick handful of softball questions and cue the selfie line. ... a political celebrity pop-in that elevates shopworn talking-point speechifying over an actual thoughtful conversation about the real problems the party faces is an occasion quickly forgotten, and rightly so. (read it all)
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