Thomas Frank: It's Clinton Who Wrecked the Democratic Party

Thomas Frank discusses what's wrong with the Democratic party, giving much of the blame to Bill Clinton. Frank's new book is Listen, Liberal! Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

[@blogleftbanker]

We need more voices like his in America.

[@denisedevoto2834]

Leftbanker Chris Hedges is great too.

[@zonmoy]

ones like jimmy Dore are far better.

[@robb7398]

Jimmy is great but even Jimmy Dore says he got most of his beliefs from reading Frank's Listen, Liberal

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

@@zonmoy - Naa-ah, just louder.

[@fredcalabrese6066]

After Carter, all we've had were Republicans and Republican-lites in the Oval Office.

[@onomatopoeia162003]

yup. baiscally liberal Republicans(under the D name) v. Republicans. Why do you think we have most of New England area at the federal level. Other than Collins seat? lol

[@laurentsaint-laurent3659]

even Jimmy Carter could be filed there.. it got MUCH worst later but he'd been very complacent ...

[@ckwind1971]

Republicans in sheep's clothing

[@brickman291]

I'm a conservative that's for the working class against NAFTA and agree completely with this man.

[@onomatopoeia162003]

Did ya read the book? Listen Liberal.

[@rickbar123]

I love this guy.

[@CrystalsandCandles]

oh man... Where's the rest of this? Gotta go search. Frank is a sane voice in a choir of insanity

[@christinajonsson7208]

+James Travers Here's an article on the subject. liberalvaluesblog.com/2016/03/13/no-more-clintons-thomas-frank-howard-zinn-expose-bill-clintons-conservative-record/

[@GBHForumNetwork]

Glad you enjoyed it. The rest is here: forum-network.org/partner/baffler/

[@capt251978]

The whole speech is Amazing. I have watched repeatedly

[@Kapitainleutnant]

Try TYT Network. Frank has been on there more than once. Extended interviews.

[@bobriemersma]

Kapitainleutnant try ANYWHERE ELSE. Stop directing people to DNC propaganda outlets like TYT.

[@lanellici]

Tell it Frank!

[@deanrao4805]

Bless you Thomas Frank for making clear the distinction between a Democratic party "failure" and a betrayal.

[@UURevival]

I remember my two conservative Republican uncles saying at the time that Clinton was one of the best Republican Presidents ever and that his personal failings robbed him of being able to reap the benefits of those Republican policies.

[@dv5659]

I’m very interested by his perspective. Just started reading Listen Liberal and it has already challenged a lot of preconceived notions I’ve ignorantly held. The world need more measured, rational, balanced voices like him.

[@melanzligga7057]

This guy is saying some important stuff here.

[@CartoonManWhoo]

Everything he is saying is exactly why political parties DO NOT matter. There is no left, human rights party in the U.S. There is only a right wing corporate state, a one party system... The business party with 2 factions... the right and center right.

[@rcquakes30]

I voted for Dole and Bush twice out of anger. I agree with this man

[@4455matthew]

"in getting NAFTA passed, Clinton made the problems, the real world problems of the working people, worse." This is clear, informative, and helpful, we need this. information.

[@OurHiddenHistoryRevealed]

This guy and Thomas Ferguson (UMass) are top notch.

[@Tom-it6gi]

A lot more people need to understand this. And I'm a former fan / defender of Clinton and Obama.

[@nicholasyoung2794]

Clintons don't forget his wife - Biden was trying to carry on - he was happy skimming off his son Hunter and Ukraine - and Harris is kind of insult to injury - Bush was old school CIA crap Republican not quite to the level of his pops

[@ilpassero1640]

Very important video!

[@bbhihoney]

Jimmy Dore is aware and talking the truth. "The Jimmy Dore show" on youtube is the place to go.

[@Fulldre]

Barbara B learned about Thomas Frank on his show!

[@Ryansarcade9]

Love Jimmy!

[@rn5598]

Jimmy Dore brought me here. It was the second or third time I had heard of Thomas Frank so I thought I should look him up. That repetition came from new media.

[@badomaji]

I loved 'The Wrecking Crew'. Thanks for having the guts to point this stuff out. You're the best. Courage is a scarce commodity in this time. All the best (energies). 🖖

[@IvoMiller]

Never too old to learn something new

[@davidkokaska8130]

The ‘first’ BlackPresident from southern Arkansas

[@victoriousvicK09]

YES!!!

[@MrHarveyrex23]

The Republican Party all their “moderates” out. And all the moderate republicans went to the democrat party. The democrat party becoming a Center right conservative Wall Street Party made the GOP a more dangerous far right Conservative party

[@suarezguy]

The Left thought Franklin Roosevelt was unacceptably center-right when he was in power too.

[@dickhamilton3517]

I'm delighted to say that it was the internet, and the British people who frequent it, that made it possible for the Americans to use the words "working class" again.

[@annchurchill2612]

This is how I see it.

[@dalereynolds7638]

Thomas Frank for President.

[@zombiesheep.whatsinyourhea9166]

Lock up those monsters!

[@douglasprinceart]

Best video ever about Clinton. ~a liberal

[@TheTodsBread]

Thomas Frank kicks ass

[@brpadington]

Free trade is good but there is nothing free about NAFTA and the TPP.

[@peace8373]

Thank you for speaking up, it became dialing for dollars, go after the big dollar donors instead of just talking with the people.

[@JohnWick-ds4mn]

This man is so underrated.

[@MasterOfSparks]

Yeah, we got nowhere else to go. Like the voting booths for example. We're not going there.

[@hillaryclinton1232]

I grew up with Bill Clinton, Same High School, he graduate 2 Years before me. Bernie Ward, the “Lion of the Left,” as he was known for years on KGO radio before his 2008 conviction for possession and distribution of child pornography, popped up in a Washington Post story this week on embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Ward recounted his years as a marriage and sex education teacher at Washington’s Georgetown Prep, where his students included both Kavanaugh and sitting Justice Neil Gorsuch. Ward described how an atmosphere of excess pervaded the Jesuit boarding school where he taught in the early 1980s. “The drinking was unbelievable,” Ward told the Post. “It was part of the culture. A parent even bought the keg and threw one of the parties for the kids. They took umbrage when I compared their rooting around with girls to dogs in heat.” The once-talkative Ward has mostly been silent since his release from federal prison in December 2014 after serving a six-year sentence for the child pornography conviction.

[@guillermorivas7819]

The elephant in the room is that our socioeconomics has become Libertarian. Both political parties in the USA focus to varying degrees of Libertarianism (repackaged as neoliberalism for the Democratic Party) such as: LGBTQ rights, free trade, open borders, professional class, money in politics, pro-millionaires, pro-business, pro-entrepreneurial, and pro-immigration. The Republican Party, on the other hand, is genuinely Libertarian with economics nowadays. Although Trump is tinkering with 1900s populism that Teddy Roosevelt implemented and spoke about. It is safe to say that outside of Trump, many Republicans are very much Libertarian regarding economics but traditional on the social issues.

[@JohnWick-ds4mn]

How is it a left leaning party thinks that going right is a good idea?????

[@andrewahonen6721]

"It was betrayal, not failure"

[@kinkle_Z]

Why Thomas Frank's appearances on Thom Hartmann are always self-censored. Thom Hartmann cannot tolerate any prolonged criticism of the democratic party. Let's remember - Thom Hartmann has on his show, professed his love and admiration for installed lobbyist, Nancy Pelosi and actually, on many occasions after the Primary, pronounced Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party's new "FDR." Outside of the Hartmann show, Frank can actually speak his mind. The only KZbinrs I know of who are LEFT of Thomas Frank are Jimmy Dore and Lee Camp.

[@skyway45]

There is a Democrat Party. I am not aware of this "Democratic" Party.

[@Citizen_Se7en]

Exactly. When are people going to learn that the former is a proper name while the latter is an adjective? Just look at any ballot on election day. It says "Democrat" next to the candidate's name, not "Democratic."

[@robb7398]

The Democratic Party traces its origins to the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and others in 1792. Faction led by Andrew Jackson in his campaign of 1828 became modern Democratic Party. It formally adopted the name “Democratic Party” at its convention in 1844.

[@tinoyb9294]

Gavin Snyder You have your head up your ass. Yes, one is a noun and one is an adjective. Just because the word "Republican" can be used either way doesn't mean that is proper for Democrat, a person, and Democratic, an adjective describing the party.

[@MrSRArter]

Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Debbie Wasserman Shits are the three people that wrecked it the most.

[@geneanthony3421]

I give him credit but I figured out Obama wasn’t change when I saw how Ron Paul was treated. True change activists are suppressed not pushed by the party

[@williamwoody7607]

1:45- I wish he’d explained WHY they all agreed this.

[@jasonablah7702]

3:45 Interesting Trump used the similar rhetoric "What do you have to lose?"

[@ricardodsavant2965]

slick willie.

[@pathacker4963]

One of the reasons I find the Clintons scarier than Drumpf.

[@SteveBell1967]

I'd love Bubba to feel my pain :)

[@lesleynoelle7337]

Clinton went so overboard that he (like Thatcher & HRC--the TRASH CLASS). took a sledgehammer to who: 'Everybody who didn't have just a Momma l'ail me, I got in an damn y'all, I'm slammin' that door shut behind me!"

[@lowellknox8624]

The party left the common man and woman .left roots believing we were to stupid to leave .I walked away because they only cared for the people who just talk .forgot who they were .

[@MrUncannyb]

Obama..... Too little "Hope and Change" Too much "Shuck and Jive"

[@TCt83067695]

Tf? Are you ok?

[@jasonophardt9521]

Obama was hamstrung by the system, put yourselves in the position to fight the greed on both sides and push through policies that cost big business and government for the benefit of all. It doesn't work because it's too much money... Not everyone can be chiefs, not everyone can live like millionaires simultaneously, but what we can learn to do is find a way to cycle ourselves in and out of various lifestyles sharing experiences and opportunities to create a balance where energy is never stagnated.

[@jasonfuentz7681]

@@jasonophardt9521 That's a lot of words to say so little.

[@davidallen3221]

Hi Tom what i wrote disappeared,cyber space.Oh well Dave in KC! Oh this man writes the truth and footnotes it too,allways a good read BUT might PISS YOU OFF!

[@thomaslonghway4967]

Get you facts right

[@Ifnotnowthenwhen-r8s]

awesome does anyone know how to get a hold of the rest of this talk??

[@capt251978]

He's done a couple lectures. Search... Listen, Liberal. It's things you have known for a while but he has the ability to tie it together. I don't rave on stuff often but his critique is AMAZING!

[@Ifnotnowthenwhen-r8s]

capt251978 I don't think he's liberal Just human and passionate Amazing stuff

[@meatwad1]

AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE DO HAVE SOMEWHERE ELSE TO GO. WE CAN GO HOME ON ELECTION DAY.

[@LandYall]

We can't afford the Liberal vision. The US Govt is already 31Trillion+ in debt.

[@CaliforniaGirl-qk5kq]

Yes - I have to agree - Obama destroyed Democratic party. Over 1,000 seats in legislature at the national and state level were lost. However Obamas got rich.

[@KenoSNeal]

Where can I get the full video?

[@EashwerIyer]

Beats trumps GOP administration

[@TCt83067695]

Where's the full thing?

[@judgewest2000]

I'd rather trump over Hillary.

[@deadpanbarry5442]

judgewest2000 You got it....maga

[@jasonfuentz7681]

@@deadpanbarry5442 Raise ya a Biden. 🖕

[@bbhihoney]

Obama did the same thing

[@thethegreenmachine]

+Barbara B Yeah Obama's just another Clinton. I knew he would be.

[@onomatopoeia162003]

@@thethegreenmachine He was a moderate in the New Democrat coalition. duh. I think a new coalition is forming now.

[@thethegreenmachine]

@@onomatopoeia162003 The New New Democrat Coalition?

[@onomatopoeia162003]

@@thethegreenmachine yup. it's a moderate and centrist coalition. it's on the wiki. And typo I see.

[@thethegreenmachine]

@@onomatopoeia162003 I did that on purpose. It's not a typo.

[@theekim6625]

So not the Russians?

[@Citizen_Se7en]

When, exactly, did the Democrat Party become the Democratic Party? If you answered "never" you'd be correct. Democratic is an adjective. Democrat is a proper name -- the name Andrew Jackson gave to the party. Whenever I see someone refer to it as the Democratic Party I cringe, because I'm looking at someone lacking some basic language skills.

[@makingsenseoutofnonsense1860]

barstard billy

[@sandtrapdummy]

This man is bright but can not acknowledge Trump was the strongest president we’ve had in years

[@jwil9050]

Everyone keeps saying that the Democrats are leaning right. Lmao . You have 2 option for this. 1. Elect Trump 2020 2.or Socialism. Pick your poison. 4 years of Trump or pretty much the end of all your civil rights and the constitution if you vote for anyone running against Trump.

[@onomatopoeia162003]

Actually the modern era Dems are the old liberal Republicans. tbh.

[@antenna_prolly]

If you knew what this "Socialism" actually was, you'd sh∅∅t your Capitalist overlords in a heartbeat.

[@jasonfuentz7681]

Does it hurt to be this painfully stupid?