Sanders has the vision, Clinton has the wonk, too bad we can't mash them up
Early this year, I wrote:
Sanders is a big picture guy. He has a great, broad, sweeping vision of what America should look like, and his campaign focuses almost exclusively on that. Meanwhile, Clinton is tactical, taking breaking news items and contextualizing them within her own political framework...
Those are both good things, as part of a greater whole. But where both candidates fail is in doing what the other one does really well.
By being big picture, Bernie Sanders eschews the details in exchange for a grand vision. It’s an effective way to rally and inspire, giving people an ideal to aspire to. Hillary Clinton is so attuned to what’s possible and how to get there—the tactical—that she’s lost (or never had) the ability to craft that big picture.
