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Posted on 05/03/2026 9:07:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Rep. Barney Frank spent decades as one of the Democratic Party’s most recognizable left-wing figures. Now, in what may be one of his final public warnings, he is telling Democrats that their loudest activists have pushed the party into territory the public simply is not buying.
Frank’s warning, delivered as he enters hospice, is blunt. He is not attacking the left from the right. He is saying the left has made a strategic mess of things by turning its most controversial causes into purity tests and then acting surprised when voters balk.
“I think we’re in a situation where the mainstream, to my disappointment, for many years ignored inequality,” Frank told Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “But the problem was, as we succeeded in bringing the mainstream of the left into a concern with inequality, we also enabled people who wanted to use that as a platform for a wide range of social and cultural changes, some of which the public isn’t ready for.”
That is not the kind of thing today’s Democrats like to hear… especially from a party elder who spent years helping to build the very coalition he is now warning against. But Frank’s point is hard to dismiss: when a movement stops persuading and starts demanding, it risks shrinking its own base.
He gave a clear example. On gay rights, Frank said the movement did not begin with the most politically explosive demand and then expect everyone to follow. It picked battles. It worked methodically. It waited until the ground had shifted before pushing same-sex marriage. That approach, he argued, is exactly what today’s Democrat Party activists have abandoned.
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NOW he tells us.
Time for some word association...if I say Barney, what’s the first word that comes to mind?
This old boy was one of Rush Limbaughs favorites. I won’t miss Barney but I sure miss Rush.
Fwank.
Barney may not live long enough to see the phony establishment of gay-marriage ash-canned by society, but it will happen.
All Frank is saying is that the frog is being boiled too quickly.
He’s still a nasty leftwing POS even on his death bed.
“...some of which the public isn’t ready for.”
There’s the key language. Pretend now. Impose your will in the future.
Don't make the man you hired for sex, your Congressional aide, and don't let him run a prostitution ring out of your apartment, and don't fix his parking tickets either.
They want full Commie-nism now, and, well, f them.
Rubble. From Rubble, my next word association is Betty.
I guess Barney Frank loves his country after all. Why else would he come out with something that would be so unpopular with many in his party. This is a very unselfish and brave thing for him to do.
This is a very unselfish and brave thing for him to do.
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Not really. He still wants the frog boiled. He’s saying to turn the heat down from high to low so the people don’t notice and push back. He’s still pure evil at heart.
Fred.
My Boy Lollipop ( slurp...)
Prostitution
Shut up Barney. (When you’re enemy is making a mistake, don’t stop him. ~ Sun Tzu)
“...pushed the party into territory the public simply is not buying...”
This coming from a “guy” whose lies were instrumental in the housing debacle that was a multi-year event (roughly 2000–2008) that caused severe economic damage, including the wiping out of trillions of dollars in household wealth and acting as the primary catalyst for the 2008 Great Recession. He and Chris Dodd in the Senate lied about financial solvency of Fannie and Freddie and forced financial institutions to offer subprime loans to unqualified borrowers and ignored warnings about the risk these government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) posed to the economy. They should have been arrested and imprisoned.
I wouldn’t trust him to walk across the street.
wy69
what’s the first word that comes to mind? gay midget criminal
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