- Looking forward to Thomas Frank's talk @LSE_US on 11/10 http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2016/10/20161011t1830vOT.aspx … #LSEUSdems https://twitter.com/IsabelHardman/status/781819508478603264 …
- Tomorrow at LSE: Thomas Frank on 'Whatever Happened to the Party of the People?' #LSEUSdems @LSE_US… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/785468751223414785 …
- Take a look at commentary by Thomas Frank, our guest for tomorrow's lecture, on the @guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/thomas-frank … #LSEUSDEMS
- US Centre Director, Professor Peter Trubowitz, introduced our speaker, before Thomas Frank dove straight into the most dominant issue in American politics today: Trump.
- Centre Director, @ptrubowitz, introduces our speaker, Thomas Frank: historian, analyst, author of nine books #LSEUSDems
- “Let’s start with the word on everyone’s minds: Trump” - Thomas Frank #LSEUSDems
- “What made this guy possible? No political experience, insulting, and hails from the upper echelons of America’s plutocracy…” #LSEUSDems
- "Serving working people is why you had a Democratic party, why we had a New Deal. Now they are lining up with billionaire Trump." #lseusdems
- “Trump has done so well because he has won the enthusiastic support of the white working class, a class collapsing as we speak” #LSEUSDems
- Frank declared that Democrats, once the 'party of the people', have failed to stem the tide of rising inequality
- “How did the Democrats come to abandon the working people of America? And why have they failed to respond to inequality?” #LSEUSDems
- "‘Inequality’ is short-hand for the things that make the lives of the rich better, and those of working people so precarious." #LSEUSDems
- “Inequality is evident in the ever-rising cost of healthcare and education, the growth of Wall Street, in Washington’s lobbying” #LSEUSDems
- “When we talk about inequality, we talk too about the failures of the Democratic Party” - Thomas Frank #LSEUSDems
- "The #DemocraticParty is at constant war with itself. It is always grappling with its own identity." Thomas Frank #LSEUSDems
Thomas Frank here at LSE talking about his latest book 'Listen, Liberal' on the US Democrat party #LSEUSdems @LSE_US pic.twitter.com/Xo0WS33TC6- Former US President Bill Clinton's introduction of The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has contributed to the killing of the legacy of the New Deal
- “Once NAFTA was passed, management began pledging constantly to move to Mexico; with the workers helpless to retaliate” #LSEUSDems
- “The New Democrats hailed NAFTA as the best thing Clinton ever achieved, having killed the legacy of the New Deal” - Thomas Frank #LSEUSDems
- “Clinton’s logic was that you can do what you want to core Democrat supporters, because they’ve got nowhere else to go” #LSEUSDems
- "Establishing NAFTA, abolishing welfare, the crime bill- Bill Clinton consummated the Reagan Revolution” -Thomas Frank #lseusdems
- “Mass incarceration, bank deregulation, the de-industrialisation of America; Clinton achieved what Reagan never could” #LSEUSDems
- Having once been the 'party of the people' the Democrats have now evolved to be the party of the 'highly educated professional class'.
- "Democrats needed to embrace the emerging post-industrial economy & winners in this new economy- the coalition of the ascendant." #LSEUSdems
- “Originally one of the most Republican groups - the highly educated professional class - is now one of the most Democratic” #LSEUSDems
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