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# Thomas Frank

(1965)   Historian

 **116** quotes in **967** categories

Thomas Frank notes that he wrote a piece while in a bad mood, and he criticizes conservatism as a politics at war with the world. He argues that media bias has long been a favorite theme of the right, and that populists often turn into socialists.

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Thomas Frank is a historian, best known for *The mocktail bar guide*.

## Quick Facts About Thomas Frank

Born March 21, 1965

Profession Historian

Notable works The mocktail bar guide

## About Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank is an American political analyst, historian, and writer.

##  Quotes by 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/)

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[Bias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bias/)

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> [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/)

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[Bad mood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-mood/)

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> [I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/i-was-never-a-fan-of-barack-obama-s-bipartisanship-routine/)

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[Barack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barack/)

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> [The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-thing-now-is-to-seem-concerned-in-a-vaguely-social-democratic-way/)

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[Concerned](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/concerned/)

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> [Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/republicans-run-the-machine-when-it-s-their-turn-and-then-hand-the/)

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[Computers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/)

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> [Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/surrogate-motherhood-has-been-the-subject-of-much-philosophical-and/)

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[Disputes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/disputes/)

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> [The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-obama-administration-s-plan-is-to-have-the-federal-reserve/)

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[Administration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/administration/)

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> [Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/acknowledging-class-was-always-difficult-for-new-democrats-it-was/)

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[Class](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/class/)

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> [For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/for-profit-higher-education-is-today-a-booming-industry-feeding-on/)

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[Desperate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desperate/)

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> [Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/is-wall-street-the-rightful-master-of-our-economic-fate-or-should-we/)

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[Customer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/customer/)

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> [There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/there-is-no-higher-claim-to-journalistic-integrity-than-going-to-jail/)

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[Claim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claim/)

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> [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/)

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[Blame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blame/)

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

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[Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/)

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> [While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/while-democrats-fussed-with-the-details-of-health-care-reforms/)

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> [Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/most-of-roosevelt-s-innovations-have-been-the-law-of-the-land-for-70/)

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> [Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/every-city-is-either-vibrant-these-days-or-is-working-on-a-plan-to/)

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> [Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/liberal-that-i-am-i-support-health-care-reform-on-its-merits-alone-my/)

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> [There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/there-is-much-to-dislike-about-president-obama-s-approach-to-the/)

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[Approach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/approach/)

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> [In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/in-the-subprime-mortgage-industry-bankers-handed-out-iffy-loans-like/)

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> [Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/joe-klein-is-the-flower-of-american-political-journalism-a-sharp/)

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[American](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american/)

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> [Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/markets-are-interested-in-profits-and-profits-only-service-quality/)

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[Affluence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affluence/)

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> [Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/vote-to-stand-tall-against-terrorists-receive-social-security/)

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[Blow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blow/)

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> [“For decades, Americans have experienced a populist uprising that only benefits the people it is supposed to be targeting… The angry workers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/for-decades-americans-have-experienced-a-populist-uprising-that-only/)

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[Populist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/populist/)

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> [ \[The right\] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-right-may-never-bring-prayer-back-to-schools-but-it-has-rescued/)

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[Accomplishment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accomplishment/)

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> [Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/mounting-a-campaign-against-plutocracy-makes-as-much-sense-to-the/)

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> [As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/as-it-happens-chicago-is-the-nation-s-leader-in-municipal/)

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> [“Professional-class liberals aren't really alarmed by oversized rewards for society's winners; on the contrary, this seems natural to them -- because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/professional-class-liberals-aren-t-really-alarmed-by-oversized/)

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[Liberalism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liberalism/)

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> [There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/there-is-something-uniquely-depressing-about-the-fact-that-the/)

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[Administration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/administration/)

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> [“You can find dozens of examples of this kind of liberal-class virtue-quest if you try, but instead of listing them, let me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/you-can-find-dozens-of-examples-of-this-kind-of-liberal-class-virtue/)

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> [“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/when-you-have-rejected-all-the-accepted-social-science-methods-for/)

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[Europe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/europe/)

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> [“But such people (Moderate Conservatives) aren't liberal. What they are is corporate. Their habits and opinions owe far more to the standards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/but-such-people-moderate-conservatives-aren-t-liberal-what-they-are/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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> [“And libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently pro-business political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/and-libertarianism-is-good-because-it-helps-conservatives-pass-off-a/)

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[Christian science](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christian-science/)

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> [ “...\[I\]t doesn't take an advanced degree to figure out that this education talk is less a strategy for mitigating inequality than it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/i-t-doesn-t-take-an-advanced-degree-to-figure-out-that-this-education/)

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> [“The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-trick-never-ages-the-illusion-never-wears-off-vote-to-stop/)

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> [“There is no solidarity in a meritocracy. The very idea contradicts the ideology of the well-graduated technocrats who rule us. As we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/there-is-no-solidarity-in-a-meritocracy-the-very-idea-contradicts-the/)

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> [“Innovation liberalism is "a liberalism of the rich," to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/innovation-liberalism-is-a-liberalism-of-the-rich-to-use-the/)

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> [Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/money-has-transformed-every-watchdog-every-independent-authority/)

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> [Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/bad-government-is-the-natural-product-of-rule-by-those-who-believe/)

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[Bad government](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-government/)

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> [People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/people-getting-their-fundamental-interests-wrong-is-what-american/)

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> [When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/when-money-is-exchanged-for-pregnancy-some-believe-surrogacy-comes/)

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[Baby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baby/)

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                        "text": "[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.",
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                        "text": "“And libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently pro-business political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom. Whatever we may think of libertarianism as a set of ideas, practically speaking, it is a doctrine that owes its visibility to the obvious charms it holds for the wealthy and the powerful. The reason we have so many well-funded libertarians in America these days is not because libertarianism has acquired an enormous grassroots following, but because it appeals to those who are able to fund ideas. Like social Darwinism and Christian Science before it, libertarianism flatters the successful and rationalizes their core beliefs about the world. They warm to the libertarian idea that taxation is theft because they themselves don’t like to pay taxes. They fancy the libertarian notion that regulation is communist because they themselves find regulation intrusive and annoying. Libertarianism is a politics born to be subsidized. In the “free market of ideas,” it is a sure winner.”",
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                        "text": "“The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to make our country strong again; receive deindustrialization. Vote to screw those politically correct college professors; receive electricity deregulation. Vote to get government off our backs; receive conglomeration and monopoly everywhere from media to meatpacking. Vote to stand tall against terrorists; receive Social Security privatization. Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.”",
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