She went on NPR this weekend, and as someone who agrees with all of her policies, absolutely pissed me off. Her interviewer was no a socialist, but he gave her softball questions and she dropped it every time. She answered every question from the seat of knowing she was in the right and neglected to include compassion for the audience members who dont know that she is right and have no clue why she is.
"Abolish the senate" has to be the worst way to phrase this goal. It sounds like a mic drop instead of a persuasive message. Its fast, scary, and lacking any of the reasoning. If she said that she wants to "unite the chambers of congress into a single, evenly representative, legislature." Congrats, now it sounds less scary, and the reasoning makes sense.
When discussing moving funding from police budgets into the community, she just said "wouldnt you rather have trees and lunches for children than cops everywhere?" Its two totally disconnected thoughts! Talk about how alleviating the burden for parents to feed their children will reduce the stresses that cause domestic violence, where as cops can only ever respond to a domestic violence call after the violence has happened.
The whole interview, the host was offering her chances to talk about her positions sensibly, giving her second chances to phrase things more eloquently, and she rejected every time. Megan Romer doesnt belong anywhere near a microphone, or our leadership structure. If you cant speak from a point of compassion for everyone, then you cant be trusted to lead a movement centered around compassion.

Haven't watched the interview but this sounds bad. And yeah, the whole reason why socialism is gaining ground is because the policy planks are anchored in material problems and offer real solutioms. Those solutions are popular.. when articulated well and connected to people's problems. Otherwise it sounds like elitist out of touch mumbo jumbo. It's the same problem as a professional in a field speaking in terminology to layperson. You gotta switch depending on the audience.