Elizabeth Warren and Theresa May couldn’t be more different
The newsweeklies canāt wait uź§ntil Labor Day to start their political drumbeats.
š„New York spotlights Sen. Elizabeth Warren ā āFront Runner?ā asks the cover line for a 10-pagešø spread by Rebecca Traister. The New Yorker goes deep on British Prime Minister Theresa May in an 11-page profile by Sam Knight.
The women could not be more different.
Warrenās power-to-the-people bšeliefs are so persistent she named her puppy āBaileyā ā after Jimmy Stewartās George Bailey in āItās a Wonderful Life.ā
Her platformās Bailey-like, too: š āReverse the new corporate tax benefits and invest in stemming the opioid crisis, bring college costs down, institute single-payer health care, regulate financial institutions,ā Traister writes.
The authorš² contends that Warren may be just the candidate these timš¦©es demand ā āleft, female, and furious.ā Really?
Unlike Warren, May is enigmatic.
āShe sits, you talk,ā a former Cabinet collšŗeague says of the PM. āShe looks at you, andš then you leave.ā
āMayās also unable to zing like Warren ā even though the magazine asserts āshe can land a joke, if she has time to prepare.ā
Despite being anti-Brexit, May rose to power two years ago ā just 20 days after the vote to leave the ź¦European Union.
Many finšd her indifference to mšanaging the task disturbing. May makes it all too clear, Knight writes, that āit is not how she would choose to spend her premiership.ā
Both pieces are well-wrš¤”itten ā but not exactly beach reading for those looking to get away from it all.