She grew up in Oklahoma. Her parents worked in retail, and were on the bare fringes of the middle class. She didn’t go to Ivy League schools. She first made her mark as an academic doing research on bankruptcy. She has fought for the interests of people who have been screwed over by the system all of her life.
He grew up in New York City. His father, a wealthy developer, made him a millionaire before he was a teenager. His dad got him out of financial trouble as long as he was alive. He went to the Wharton School, and used what he learned there, and from his dad, to exploit people who were foolish enough to trust him. When he was elected president, he filled his government with billionaires. His signature piece of legislation was a tax cut that disproportionately helped the wealthy.
You would think, under the circumstances, that the voters would see the difference between a real and a fake populist, but you might well be wrong. If Warren is the nominee, Trump will attack her as a snooty, over-educated Ivy League professor who, unlike him, talks down to the voters. That’s the real class struggle here.
The tragedy is, it would probably work.