Inside Warren's collapsing base

The right-wing Democrats who gave Warren her September surge have fled - and destroyed the case for her candidacy.

The strategic case for Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy has typically relied on two similar arguments. The first is that she is a “unity candidate” who can bring the left and right flanks of the Democratic party together. The second, addressed to the left, is that she can expand a supposed Sanders-Warren coalition without simply eating into the Sanders base…