Medicare for All was never going to happen. I know its a Progressive fever-dream...but the fact of the matter is that its simply not DOABLE right now politically. 1. Working people are too scared and divided amongst themselves to support it. They're too busy trying to hold other groups down, to see that this is in their own best interests. IOW, too pre-occupied with looking to kick down, to come together and punch up. 2. She would have been taking on THE most powerful set of special (corporate) interests in America. Who---combined---wield economic power equal to 1/6 of our GDP. Those special interests will mobilize and manipulate that fear and resentment to their advantage to defend that status quo. "Obamacare" passed (barely) because the President was politically saavy enough to DIVIDE these groups from one another, so that he could isolate the Insurance industry...and take them on seperately. AND HE STILL NEARLY LOST. He convinced allthe other groups to sit out the fight....and the Insurance Industry ALONE was nearly powerful enough to beat him. But WAS powerful enough to take away his power in Congress in 2010.. Pushing for a single-payor system? You'd be taking on ALL of them at the same time. You'd basically be legislating the health insurance industry out of existence.....and you'd be cutting deeply into the profits of all the OTHER interests. So instead of sitting things out like they did during the fight over the affordable care act, they'd all join in and dump enough money on Congress to kill whatever initiative she came up with in the crib. Elizabeth Warren----minus Medicare for All----has the message that can not only beat Trump...but could help the Democratic party reclaim its soul and FRACTURE the Reagan coalition. Perhaps for good. She has a true economic populist message that can come here into the Rust Belt and undermine Trumps support here. Support that gave him the White House because Secretary Clinton took that support for granted....and was too busy trying to flip Red States to actually bother to show up here to campaign. So Trump message of protectionism largely ran unopposed. NOW is not the time to risk losing the White House at a critical time in our history.....going after a White Whal that her own party would end up sabotaging.