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Acknowledging class was always difficult for New Democrats - it wa

Acknowledging class was always difficult for New Democrats – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again. – Thomas Frank

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Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. – Thomas Frank

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Government
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Thomas Frank
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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. Its authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. – Thomas Frank

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Politics
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Thomas Frank
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Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nations business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations. – Thomas Frank

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I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think shes very cool. Shes out there and shes involved. – Sandra Bernhard

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So, its cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life. – Blake Lively

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I do resent that when youre in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, youre put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when theyre older. So its a drag that were not allowed to age. – Rosanna Arquette

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