Did Elizabeth Warren drop her idea to split up big companies like Amazon and Facebook?

She has a lot of terrible ideas. But you’re right, I haven’t heard her talk about it recently.

Didn’t she drop out?

No, she will, though.

You think we will end up with Bernie as our nominee?

Honestly I don’t care. (Serious about this). I would be fine with Bernie if only because the Bernie Troops will stop whining and start voting.

@Caravanfan Not only is she not bringing it up (unless I’ve missed her talking about it recently) the media hasn’t asked her about it either. It was something she was really harping on. How is that not during any interviews or debates not any journalists have asked her what happened to that idea? All I can guess is they don’t want to make her look bad. Could they really have just forgotten about it.

Candidates have websites. On those websites are plans and policies that you can read.

I think she is not talking about it because it was made clear to her that:

1) penalizing corporate success and hard work is not a good policy

2) even if she wanted to, the legal mechanisms to ‘break up a company’ are pretty shaky and will take years and years

I think the ‘break up Amazon’ line was a political attention getter, not a serious idea.

After the latest stunt, I think she’s jockeying for a Biden VP position. She has really treated Biden with kid gloves for the most part, when he was responsible for things like the bankruptcy bill that she strongly opposed before she ever became a senator. I would expect her to ruthlessly hammer him on that.

The VP play would necessitate Warren toning down the anti-corporate messaging. Which does seem to be happening.

That’s a really good take.