Yes, she is quite compelling for those sympathetic to her style of nanny nasty and left populist demagoguery. After all, she is an archetype of an educated Huey Long, a self-appointed campaigner for the 'common little guy' against those "EVIL" corporations, banks, and insurance companies. And her particular appeal to some Democrats is that her attacks have been based the universal resentment of class differences and "screwing the little guy", not on a narrow identity group loyalty - well, until recently anyway.
And she is equally revolting to those of us who reject her style of spiteful and churlish "school marm" finger wagging, as well as to those who reject her politics of class resentment . You see, there are those of us not infected with the resentment of those many who make more money than us (in spite of our modest income), who don't disrespect and value free markets and the business community, and who don't wish to demonize a broad swaths of the American people's solely on the basis of their membership in "the other" class, race, or gender. On that basis she is a special case of "yuck".
Aside from politics, your benighted infatuation of Warren needs to solid dose of truth and realism.
First, she doesn't have any special or even expert knowledge on the policy areas she discusses. Repeating her own claims of specialized knowledge and practice in a bio or CVita is nothing more than an advertisement based on self-promotion in academia.
Second, the best (and worst) that can be said of Warren is that she purely thinks like a lawyer (and former welfare worker), meaning that her world view is crippled by the foolish belief that an economic system based on billions of atomized transactions of self interest and the invisible hand should be "commanded" to have a proper outcome, while ignoring adverse consequences. Whereas an economist looks at a society as customs, values and cultural habits expressed in voluntary exchange (an expression of billions of rational wants by consumers and producers) lawyers look society as an unruly collective mess in need of a strong, centralized authority making moral decrees on land, capital labor and consumption in the name of "all".
Last Warren has been a shoddy scholar, a pedestrian attorney, and an overhyped fake "minority" pushed up the academic track. Her singular claim to fame is her study on middle class bankruptcy, debunked repeatedly as a near fraud in both peer and popular press.
I suppose though, as an archetype of the old fashioned, pre-Carter liberal, government planning regulatory foolishness that has been shown to backfire and ignore economic laws - well, she excells.
