A review by yikesbmg
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People by Thomas Frank

4.0

Critiques of Dem's focus on professional classes and the elite instead of the working class & poor and "innovation" instead of taking those left behind by the end of industrialism seriously. This book felt super long and repetitive at times, and took me about 5 months to read. It does a great job of breaking down the Democratic party's failures but not really of paving a path forward (which is fine, someone else can do that). It's not a book written in light of Trump, so it's a lot more incisive and precise with its criticism which I really enjoyed. It deals w Dems by themselves and according to their own history, not in light of recent elections.