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> [Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/back-in-the-days-when-the-market-was-a-kind-of-secular-god-and-all/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

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> [Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/privatizing-bits-of-the-prison-industry-was-a-step-in-the-right/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

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## More by Thomas Frank

> [I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/i-was-in-a-bad-mood-when-i-wrote-that/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [“above all, intellectual. Anti-intellectualism is one of the grand unifying themes of the backlash, the mutant strain of class war that underpins so many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/above-all-intellectual-anti-intellectualism-is-one-of-the-grand/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-only-truly-individualistic-health-care-choice-where-you-receive/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/conservatism-is-not-a-doctrine-of-contentment-not-a-doctrine-for-the/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/a-president-aiming-for-great-or-near-great-status-must-do-more-he/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [“Innovation liberalism is "a liberalism of the rich," to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has no patience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/innovation-liberalism-is-a-liberalism-of-the-rich-to-use-the/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/media-bias-has-been-a-favorite-theme-of-the-right-for-decades-of/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/presidential-legacies-are-valuable-things-too-valuable-to-be-left-up/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/a-lot-of-populists-after-populism-died-just-became-socialists-at-the/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the slaughter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/and-so-the-catastrophe-of-1929-33-did-to-the-certainties-of-laissez/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/vibrancy-is-so-universally-desirable-so-totemic-in-its-powers-that/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/under-the-administration-of-george-w-bush-you-will-recall-federal/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/massive-inequality-we-have-learned-isn-t-the-best-way-to-run-an/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/governing-was-always-difficult-for-conservatives-but-as-they-return/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

> [Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/back-in-the-days-when-the-market-was-a-kind-of-secular-god-and-all/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

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