Quotes by Thomas Frank
“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class.”— Thomas Frank
“Culture war is not a struggle over policy. It’s a struggle over identity. It’s a struggle over who we are.”— Thomas Frank
“The problem is not that people are voting against their interests. The problem is that they are voting for a vision of the world that is fundamentally at odds with their interests.”— Thomas Frank
“What liberals have been slow to understand is that the backlash is not a fleeting phenomenon. It is a social movement, with a long history and a deep-seated appeal.”— Thomas Frank
“For thirty years, we’ve been hearing about how the country has been moving to the right. But the opposite is true. On almost every issue, the public has been moving to the left.”— Thomas Frank
“The Democratic class="highlight">Party has become the class="highlight">party of the professional class. The Republican class="highlight">Party has become the class="highlight">party of the business class. And the working class has been left behind.”— Thomas Frank
“The one thing that the people who have been crushed by thirty years of rising inequality and insecurity and stagnant wages have in common is that they are angry.”— Thomas Frank