Liza Mundy on how "2020's slate of female presidential candidates is already making history"
Liza Mundy writes about these new "Women of Substance" for
The New Republic.
❝ It was a quiet moment, and probably few in the audience realized the import of what was taking place. Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic senator from Minnesota, was sitting in a chair being interviewed by journalist Kara Swisher. Just the day before, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of Klobuchar’s leading female competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination, had proposed breaking up tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon—a prospect that had people in Silicon Valley “vomiting into their Allbirds,” as Swisher put it. Swisher wanted Klobuchar’s response. When it came, it was measured: Having called for “reasonableness” to prevail in the debate among Democratic candidates, Klobuchar sought to appear sympathetic to Warren, while taking pains to sound more cautious and bipartisan. Klobuchar said she would investigate the companies, and explained that she had co-sponsored a bill with a Republican colleague to address rampant privacy abuses within the tech world. She finished with an appeal to better fund the government agencies that enforce antitrust law. “This would get at some of the stuff Elizabeth is trying to get at,” she ventured, “in a different way.”
… [NewRepublic.com]
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