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# Thomas Frank

(1965)   Historian

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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 · Page 3

> [Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/conservatives-may-believe-that-impoverished-borrowers-destroyed-wall/)

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> [In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/in-the-last-james-bond-movie-the-villain-was-a-culture-captain-a/)

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[Bond movie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bond-movie/)

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> [When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/when-you-take-somebody-s-quote-out-of-context-which-happens-all-the/)

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> [Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/can-policy-be-both-wise-and-aggressively-partisan-ask-any-republican/)

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> [I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/i-think-there-s-great-potential-for-autonomy-but-we-have-to-remember/)

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[Autonomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autonomy/)

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

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> [The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-revival-of-the-right-is-as-extraordinary-as-it-would-be-if-the/)

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> [To be sure, we should all eat right, brush our teeth, and cut down on sweets, but that will hardly help us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/to-be-sure-we-should-all-eat-right-brush-our-teeth-and-cut-down-on/)

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> [“To put it bluntly, it is not clear that cheering for innovation in the bombastic way we see in the blue states…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/to-put-it-bluntly-it-is-not-clear-that-cheering-for-innovation-in-the/)

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> [Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/our-laws-governing-lobbying-and-campaign-contributions-have-struck/)

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[Balance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/balance/)

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> [“In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the state’s dominant political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/in-1991-though-began-an-uprising-that-would-propel-those-reptilian/)

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> [Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/maybe-that-first-gigantic-deficit-the-reaganites-piled-up-was-an/)

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> [People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/people-are-born-in-a-certain-place-and-in-a-certain-society-i-don-t/)

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> [The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-great-fear-that-hung-over-the-business-community-in-the-1970s-was/)

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> [They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/they-the-conservatives-are-the-real-outsides-they-tell-us-gazing-with/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/and-so-the-catastrophe-of-1929-33-did-to-the-certainties-of-laissez/)

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> [If your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/if-your-purpose-is-to-understand-the-clique-of-people-who-dominate/)

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> [Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/government-is-by-its-very-nature-a-destroyer-of-liberties-the-obama/)

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

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> [For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/for-decades-republicans-have-made-policy-with-a-higher-purpose-in/)

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> [When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/when-the-entertainers-of-the-right-aren-t-declaring-their-disgust/)

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> [Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/above-all-else-stands-the-burning-question-of-bipartisanship-whatever/)

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> [“We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/we-re-all-free-agents-in-this-noncoercive-class-system-and-brooks/)

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> [Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/money-never-seems-to-be-interested-in-strengthening-regulatory/)

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> [One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/one-of-the-things-i-keep-coming-back-to-in-my-writing-is-that-society/)

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> [Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/apparently-there-is-no-bad-economic-turn-a-conservative-cannot-do/)

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[Beer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beer/)

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> [Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/thanks-to-a-deal-finalized-in-2008-chicago-s-parking-meters-will-be/)

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> [This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/this-aesthetic-quality-then-is-what-politics-is-all-about-it-s/)

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> [When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/when-done-right-or-wrong-depending-on-how-you-look-at-it-deficits/)

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> [During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/during-the-financial-crisis-and-bailouts-of-2008-it-probably-occurred/)

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> [Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/former-president-bill-clinton-who-is-widely-regarded-as-a-political/)

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> [Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/yes-democrats-can-prove-that-america-pays-more-for-health-care-than/)

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> [“The conservative social critique always boils down to the same simple message: liberalism - meaning everything from racy TV to deconstructionists in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-conservative-social-critique-always-boils-down-to-the-same-simple/)

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> [In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/in-small-towns-bored-teenagers-turn-their-eyes-longingly-to-the/)

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> [“There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can’t be easily blamed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/there-s-a-reason-you-probably-haven-t-heard-much-about-this-aspect-of/)

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> [“Today conservatism has arrived in that dark place. Even as American journalism lurches palpably to the right, the best-selling right-wing media critics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/today-conservatism-has-arrived-in-that-dark-place-even-as-american/)

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