

"While she’s careful not to portray herself as a dissident in her own party, Warren’s pitch runs directly against the pro-corporate, Wall Street 'centrist' line that has governed national Democratic politics since Bill Clinton’s ascendancy in 1992," wrote the group.

And what does it tell Hillary Clinton, the Democrats’ presumptive nominee-by-acclamation for 2016? It demonstrates Bill’s old-fashioned triangulation – the means by which the Democratic Party moved itself toward the corporate right – has passed its sell-by date, even in Bill’s native South.

This move could also help Hillary and her advisers understand why there was so much blowback from her “we’re not rich” comments. As Robert Reich wrote recently, people were really questioning “whether all that income from big corporations and Wall Street put (the Clintons) on the side of the privileged and powerful, rather than on the side of ordinary Americans.”