Frank : "Trump won because Clinton and the Democrats dismissed the concerns of working people"
In his latest book, "Listen, Liberal : Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People ?", just released in France '"Pourquoi les riches votent à gauche" (éd. Agone), Thomas Frank explains how Hillary Clinton and the Democrats lost the 2016 presidential election. "Decades ago, the Democratic Party decided that thy did not want to be the party of the working class any longer. Thomas Frank call them the "professionals", they are white, rich, they have all studied in the best universities. They are very liberal on social issues, but very conservative and not as ease with the issues of inequality, incomes, etc "The Democrats, in the course of my lifetime, have become a party that is uncomfortable with discontent, with class-based anger. They don't like to talk about it. It makes them uncomfortable. Whenever they hear it, they try to get around it, they try to throw roadblocks in front, cognitive roadblocks, they don't want to think about it", acccording to Thomas Frank in this interview for the French newsmagazine "L'Obs". These Democrats want to be the party of a different class : the "creative" or "the winners". The democratic party and Clinton thought that the working class had "nowhere else to go", according to Frank. But they actually did vote for Trump....
The latest book of Thomas Frank : https://www.amazon.fr/Listen-Liberal-happened-party-people/dp/1925228886/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528115924&sr=8-1&keywords=Listen%2C+Liberal%3A+Or%2C+What+Ever+Happened+to+the+Party+of+the+People%3F
Видео Frank : "Trump won because Clinton and the Democrats dismissed the concerns of working people" канала L'Obs
The latest book of Thomas Frank : https://www.amazon.fr/Listen-Liberal-happened-party-people/dp/1925228886/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528115924&sr=8-1&keywords=Listen%2C+Liberal%3A+Or%2C+What+Ever+Happened+to+the+Party+of+the+People%3F
Видео Frank : "Trump won because Clinton and the Democrats dismissed the concerns of working people" канала L'Obs
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