Thomas Frank on the Democrats, 2017-2018
Four hours in nine parts; see the embedded playlist at the bottom of this post. It is well worth watching.
And here’s a shorter, one-speech, more recent version, and also two mostly unrelated interviews from this past May, one on the Russiagate hysteria/massively dangerous overswing and one on Frank’s usual point: time to go left-populist for all the right reasons, from policy to politics.
If you’re wondering why I put a photo of Frank in this post, it’s because Blogger won’t pull the playlist thumbnail, so if I don’t put in a photo above the playlist, you’ll just see that “no-video gray icon with three dots” thing on the blog’s homepage. And you’ll rightly think the videos have been pulled from YouTube. Hence the photo in this an all playlist-proffering posts.
I’m glad we cleared that up; now get yourself Franked! And attend as well to this report on a recent study, linked herein, that pretty much proves what we all should already know: “electability” means “moderates we can trust to enact our ever-rightward-drifting, ever-triangulating, ever-space-for-Trumpism-creating set of policies that have led to the loss of a thousand state legislature seats, the Congress, the Supreme Court, much of the rest of the judiciary, and, of course, the presidency—and to a near-fascist loony toon who was the least popular politician in the country when he won, but, trust us, we’re the experts on winning, not those fucking retarded professional liberal moron-deplorables who, if ever given power, would surely lose a thousand state legislature seats, the Congress, the Supreme Court, must of the rest of the judiciary, and, of course, the presidency. So we must stop them, at all costs!”
And here’s a shorter, one-speech, more recent version, and also two mostly unrelated interviews from this past May, one on the Russiagate hysteria/massively dangerous overswing and one on Frank’s usual point: time to go left-populist for all the right reasons, from policy to politics.
If you’re wondering why I put a photo of Frank in this post, it’s because Blogger won’t pull the playlist thumbnail, so if I don’t put in a photo above the playlist, you’ll just see that “no-video gray icon with three dots” thing on the blog’s homepage. And you’ll rightly think the videos have been pulled from YouTube. Hence the photo in this an all playlist-proffering posts.
I’m glad we cleared that up; now get yourself Franked! And attend as well to this report on a recent study, linked herein, that pretty much proves what we all should already know: “electability” means “moderates we can trust to enact our ever-rightward-drifting, ever-triangulating, ever-space-for-Trumpism-creating set of policies that have led to the loss of a thousand state legislature seats, the Congress, the Supreme Court, much of the rest of the judiciary, and, of course, the presidency—and to a near-fascist loony toon who was the least popular politician in the country when he won, but, trust us, we’re the experts on winning, not those fucking retarded professional liberal moron-deplorables who, if ever given power, would surely lose a thousand state legislature seats, the Congress, the Supreme Court, must of the rest of the judiciary, and, of course, the presidency. So we must stop them, at all costs!”