Elizabeth Warren: How Her Presidency Would Destroy the Middle Class and the American Dream

by David L. Bahnsen, Sally C. Pipes (Foreword by)

Overview

As seen on Fox & Friends, CNBC, Fox Business, and Bloomberg!

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642935332
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	01/28/2020
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David L. Bahnsen is the founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm with offices in Newport Beach, New York City, Minneapolis, Oregon, Austin, and Nashville managing over $4.25 billion in client assets.

Prior to launching The Bahnsen Group, he spent eight years as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and six years as a Vice President at UBS. He is consistently named as one of the top financial advisors in America by Barron’s, Forbes, and the Financial Times.

He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, and Fox Business, and is a regular contributor to National Review. He hosts the popular weekly podcast, Capital Record, dedicated to a defense of free enterprise and capital markets.

David is a founding trustee for Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County and serves on the Board of Directors for National Review in New York City.

He is the author of several bestselling books including Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It (2018), The Case for Dividend Growth: Investing in a Post-Crisis World (2019), and There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths (2021).

David’s true passions include anything related to USC football, the financial markets, politics, and Chinese food. His ultimate passions are his wife of twenty-two-plus years, Joleen; their children, Mitchell, Sadie, and Graham; and the life they’ve created together on both coasts.

Table of Contents

Foreword Sally C. Pipes xv

Introduction xvii

Chapter 1 The Good Warren: How Far We've Come from the Two-Income Trap 1

Chapter 2 A Harvard Professor Inserts Herself into the Financial Crisis 9

Chapter 3 The Paradox of a Wealth Tax 27

Chapter 4 Banning Good Environmentalism and Good Economics in One Executive Order 43

Chapter 5 Taxes for All: The Medical and Financial Cost of Socialized Medicine 63

Chapter 6 Educational Fiasco: Wrong Solution to a Real Problem 79

Chapter 7 Taxation without Moderation: There Isn't Enough Tea in the World 93

Chapter 8 The Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend: Silicon Valley's Bedfellows 109

Chapter 9 Class Warfare Run Amok: Private Equity, Big Banks, and Evil Corporations 119

Conclusion: Elizabeth Warren's Crisis of Responsibility 137

Appendix A An Open Letter to Elizabeth Warren from Leon Cooperman 147

Acknowledgments 157

Editorial Reviews

"Elizabeth Warren: How Her Presidency Would Destroy the Middle Class and the American Dream is a serious, thorough, policy-driven critique of a major contender for the Democratic nomination. Conservatives will read it and fear what's in store for them if she becomes president. Hopefully liberals will read it too, and take its warning to heart."

The National Review

"With her relentless insistence that she has 'a plan' for all aspects of American life, Elizabeth Warren has become the poster-child of the Democratic Party's dramatic leftward rush. In this timely book, David Bahnsen dismantles Warren's fanatical agenda brick by brick, revealing it to be ignorant, dangerous, innumerate and, ultimately, immoral."

Charles Cooke

"If you aren't afraid of Senator Elizabeth Warren, you should be.

She has taken political populism and married it to the powerfully divisive engines of class envy and racial animus. For every real or perceived ill, Warren has a 'plan'—every one of which expands the massive power of government into all aspects of American life, and entails a ruthless program of confiscation to pay for it.

That's why it is important for every American to become acquainted with what she is saying. And that is why it is so important to read David Bahnsen, who clearly tackles her distortions, misstatements, and outright lies.

America was built on e pluribus unum; out of many, one. We are one people, one nation. But if Elizabeth Warren prevails, this unity will be fractured into innumerable bitterly divided camps ultimately controlled by an all-powerful central government.

All Americans should arm themselves with the facts and responses presented in David Bahnsen's Elizabeth Warren: How Her Presidency Would Destroy the Middle Class and the American Dream. This is an impressive and important book."

Dennis Prager

"In this engaging and incisive book, David Bahnsen lays bare the damage an Elizabeth Warren presidency would do to this country. David clearly details how everyone one of Warren's favored policies—from Medicare for All to the Green New Deal and beyond—would bury the middle class in taxes and red tape. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in politics and policy—and adroitly explains what's at stake in the 2020 presidential election."

Sally C. Pipes

"What a great political and economic anomaly: The populist Left, championed by Elizabeth Warren, is determined to vanquish wealth—the thing most essential to the investment, productivity, and growth desperately needed to underwrite the evermore ambitious progressive agenda. Here, David Bahnsen, a brilliant financial analyst with a keen political eye, provides the antidote to Senator Warren's nostrums, and a Hazlitt-esque Capital in One Lesson for the rest of us."

Andrew C. McCarthy

"If Elizabeth Warren has a 'plan for everything,' then David Bahnsen has the response. David's book is a thorough, fair-minded, and comprehensive rebuttal to Warren's ideological project. It's a serious response to serious proposals, and it's a vital read for every American who's engaged in the battle of ideas."

David French

"Hot off his brilliant book, Crisis of Responsibility, David Bahnsen turns his keen eye on the crisis that is Elizabeth Warren and her 'plans' to dismantle the free market system. It's a must read for those who want to know what might be in store for America under a Warren presidency. Warren is a peculiar mix of progressive passions and pathologies: the populist technocrat. Rather than a pitchfork, she wields her 'plans,' which have less to do with actual public policy and more to do with making her agenda sound less than radical than it really is. David does a masterful job of pulling back the curtain and exposing Warren's plans for what they really are."

Jonah Goldberg

"David Bahnsen combines a cool-eyed sensibility with blessedly jargon-free prose to build an impregnable case against Elizabeth Warren. This is an impressive polemic."

John Podhoretz