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

4.0

Frank does a great job of articulating the discomfort I've often felt about how politics unfolds in this country. Living through the first Clinton's years was to live in a time of cognitive dissonance. The Democratic Party transformed into advocates and apologists for corporations and turned its back on the New Deal groups that gave the US a thriving middle class. The party's embrace of Wall Street and the rhetoric of go-go business, deregulation, and "free trade" agreements where every man and woman is an warrior-entrepreneur was profoundly important in putting us where we are today. Thank you, Thomas Frank, for making the connection explicit. Even better, thank you for doing it with wit and passion.