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Elizabeth Warren: How Her Presidency Would Destroy the Middle Class and the American Dream
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Elizabeth Warren is a progressive radical explicitly running on the most anti-American concepts and policies any candidate has ever run on—and may very well be the next President of the United States.
Extreme candidates are nothing new in American politics, but very rarely do candidates as extreme as Elizabeth Warren have such a talent for presenting radically dangerous policy ideas as if they are compatible with the American experiment. An increasing number of far-left progressives have worked their way into the upper echelons of Democratic Party leadership, but none have generated the college campus enthusiasm and media coddling that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has created. Yet what belies this Harvard professor’s quirky but compelling presentation style are ideas that, as recently as the Obama presidency, were considered far too radical for American life. Worse, the essence of Warren’s platform undermines the economic groups she most claims to want to aid—the frustrated middle class often on the outside of American prosperity looking in. Far from offering the middle class a life line, an Elizabeth Warren presidency represents the greatest threat to the American dream our nation has ever faced.
Elizabeth Warren is a progressive radical explicitly running on the most anti-American concepts and policies any candidate has ever run on—and may very well be the next President of the United States.
Extreme candidates are nothing new in American politics, but very rarely do candidates as extreme as Elizabeth Warren have such a talent for presenting radically dangerous policy ideas as if they are compatible with the American experiment. An increasing number of far-left progressives have worked their way into the upper echelons of Democratic Party leadership, but none have generated the college campus enthusiasm and media coddling that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has created. Yet what belies this Harvard professor’s quirky but compelling presentation style are ideas that, as recently as the Obama presidency, were considered far too radical for American life. Worse, the essence of Warren’s platform undermines the economic groups she most claims to want to aid—the frustrated middle class often on the outside of American prosperity looking in. Far from offering the middle class a life line, an Elizabeth Warren presidency represents the greatest threat to the American dream our nation has ever faced.
- GenresPolitics
192 pages, Hardcover
Published January 28, 2020
About the author
David L. Bahnsen
11 books69 followersDavid L. Bahnsen, CFP®, CIMA® is the founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a bi-coastal private wealth management boutique based in Newport Beach, CA and New York City. managing over $1.2 billion in client assets. David has been named as one of Barron’s America’s Top 1200 Advisors, as well as Forbes Top 250 Advisors and Financial Times Top 300 Advisors in America. He brought The Bahnsen Group independent through the elite boutique fiduciary, HighTower Advisors, in April 2015 after eight years as a Chairman’s Club Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and seven years as a First Vice President at UBS Financial Services. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business, and Bloomberg and is a regular contributor to National Review and Forbes.
David serves on the Board of Directors for the National Review Institute, is vice president of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, and is a founding Trustee for Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County.
David is a disciple of Milton Friedman, a lover of Ronald Reagan, and a “National Review kind of conservative” (the only kind). His prolific writings strive to reflect an ideology of freedom principles integrated with transcendent truths. His heroes are his late father, Dr. Greg Bahnsen, and Larry Kudlow, and he proudly claims heavy ideological influence from John Calvin, Abraham Kuyper, F.A. Hayek, Winston Churchill, C.S. Lewis, William Buckley, Margaret Thatcher, George Gilder, and Father Robert Sirico.
David’s true passions include anything involving related to USC football, the financial markets, politics, and his house in the desert. His ultimate passions are his lovely wife of 16+ years, Joleen, their gorgeous and brilliant children, sons Mitchell and Graham, and daughter Sadie, and the life they’ve created together in Newport Beach, California. David spends 18-20 waking hours per day thinking about the free and virtuous society.
His first book, Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It, is scheduled for a February 2018 release.
David serves on the Board of Directors for the National Review Institute, is vice president of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, and is a founding Trustee for Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County.
David is a disciple of Milton Friedman, a lover of Ronald Reagan, and a “National Review kind of conservative” (the only kind). His prolific writings strive to reflect an ideology of freedom principles integrated with transcendent truths. His heroes are his late father, Dr. Greg Bahnsen, and Larry Kudlow, and he proudly claims heavy ideological influence from John Calvin, Abraham Kuyper, F.A. Hayek, Winston Churchill, C.S. Lewis, William Buckley, Margaret Thatcher, George Gilder, and Father Robert Sirico.
David’s true passions include anything involving related to USC football, the financial markets, politics, and his house in the desert. His ultimate passions are his lovely wife of 16+ years, Joleen, their gorgeous and brilliant children, sons Mitchell and Graham, and daughter Sadie, and the life they’ve created together in Newport Beach, California. David spends 18-20 waking hours per day thinking about the free and virtuous society.
His first book, Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It, is scheduled for a February 2018 release.
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March 12, 2020
Covers the many insane and idiotic policies of Warren which are quickly becoming the norm on the left, and the effects they would have on the middle class. This book may be more relevant 4 years from now as I expect the ideological trajectory of the left to continue in the same direction.
July 30, 2022
Two years have passed since this book was first written. In those two years, Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination and won the presidency over Donald Trump. So why read a book about Warren now—pro or con? Because she's the idea factory of the hard-left flank of the Democratic Party. Joe Biden may have won the nomination by campaigning as a moderate, but, contrary to the wishes of moderate primary voters, the hard-left flank still exerts much power behind the throne. The results? Runaway inflation and one of the least popular presidents in history. One recent poll even says that only 1% of 18-29 year olds are "strongly supportive" of Biden. One percent!
David Bahnsen's critiques of Warren intentionally downplay her character flaws—such as masquerading as a Native American in order to receive career benefits at Harvard—and for good reason. Bahnsen comes from a conservative perspective, but he wants to speak to libertarians, moderate Clinton-style liberals and others, to help build a coalition against these destructive policies, regardless of who is the vehicle for them. He doesn't excuse her character flaws, but is frank in acknowledging that while he finds them disqualifying, many others will not necessarily reach the same conclusions.
That's why it needs to be said that this is not primarily an attack on Warren as an individual. It debunks flawed reasoning, economic illiteracy and the poisonous politics of envy. Any American concerned about the future of the country should read it. Even DSA types who are skeptical should read it and see if they can counter Bahnsen's arguments.
David Bahnsen's critiques of Warren intentionally downplay her character flaws—such as masquerading as a Native American in order to receive career benefits at Harvard—and for good reason. Bahnsen comes from a conservative perspective, but he wants to speak to libertarians, moderate Clinton-style liberals and others, to help build a coalition against these destructive policies, regardless of who is the vehicle for them. He doesn't excuse her character flaws, but is frank in acknowledging that while he finds them disqualifying, many others will not necessarily reach the same conclusions.
That's why it needs to be said that this is not primarily an attack on Warren as an individual. It debunks flawed reasoning, economic illiteracy and the poisonous politics of envy. Any American concerned about the future of the country should read it. Even DSA types who are skeptical should read it and see if they can counter Bahnsen's arguments.
March 1, 2020
Worth the read no matter who you support
This book outlines many of the issues of being a financial illiterate vis-a-vie political rhetoric. Both parties use inflammatory language without much fact to back up their statements. As of this writing there are 607 billionaires in the USA. If you confiscate all their net worth it will not run the US government for a whole year and then what will you do the next year. This book is a good way to understand the exaggerated rhetoric you find in politics.
This book outlines many of the issues of being a financial illiterate vis-a-vie political rhetoric. Both parties use inflammatory language without much fact to back up their statements. As of this writing there are 607 billionaires in the USA. If you confiscate all their net worth it will not run the US government for a whole year and then what will you do the next year. This book is a good way to understand the exaggerated rhetoric you find in politics.
June 2, 2021
Successful billionaire hedge fund manager Bahnsen--who lives in New York and Newport Beach (nice!)--goes down each of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's proposals and shows how each one would seriously hurt middle-class Americans. I honestly don't understand how Warren gets away with her image of fighting for the little guy. Maybe media simply give her a pass. Having lost out on the Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominations last year (2020), I sincerely hope Warren is done for good with national politics. She'll be 75 in 2024--and just as angry as ever.
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