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"They have no problem with the growing inequality...that's who the Democrats are today."
Great interview on NPR's On Point with Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas? and newly released Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?:
Thomas Frank On How The Democratic Party Lost Touch With The People (OnPoint interview)
A big new broadside against the Democratic Party by liberal stalwart, Thomas Frank. He blames a yuppified Democratic Party for the rise of Donald Trump.
The Democratic Party of the 20th century helped rally the nation during the Great Depression, championed organized labor, and government action to relieve the sufferings of poverty and the injustice of discrimination. Author Thomas Frank has published a scathing critique of this latest Democratic Party, version 2.0 you might say. He concludes that old Party is dead. This hour On Point, do today’s liberals really care about working people?
A big new broadside against the Democratic Party by liberal stalwart, Thomas Frank. He blames a yuppified Democratic Party for the rise of Donald Trump.
The Democratic Party of the 20th century helped rally the nation during the Great Depression, championed organized labor, and government action to relieve the sufferings of poverty and the injustice of discrimination. Author Thomas Frank has published a scathing critique of this latest Democratic Party, version 2.0 you might say. He concludes that old Party is dead. This hour On Point, do today’s liberals really care about working people?
More material from an earlier DU post at Good Reads:
What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
And another essay that dispels the classist and privileged notion that all it takes is 'grit' (which may be necessary, but is far from sufficient) that has taken hold in elite/predominant Democratic circles, highlighting that 'slack' - which allows for more use of mental and emotional resources, and comes from a "cushier social and financial safety-net" - plays a much larger factor in contributing to fulfilling one's potential, well-being, and lot in life:
https://aeon.co/essays/the-road-to-excellence-is-paved-with-a-few-lapses-on-the-way
"Democrats see every economic problem as an education problem...it's not, it's a problem of power!" - Thomas Frank
