"Democrats really failed to speak to the new angry sensibility in the country. And Obama's personality is almost precisely wrong for the populist moment—he really has trouble turning on that emotion."
by Bob Geary
Journalist-historian Thomas Frank was in Raleigh in September 2008 a few weeks before the elections that ousted the Republican Party and put Democrats in charge of the White House and both houses of Congress. Frank's new book at the time was The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule.…[ Read more ]