What podcasts say about Thomas Frank
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What Thomas Frank has said on podcasts
13 statements · 10 negative · 3 neutral
Thomas Frank attributed conservative support to the power of culture wars.
“the answer was the culture wars.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 26:37
Affluent, educated Kansas Republican moderates have largely become Democrats.
“that group has, by and large, become Democrats here in the last few years.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 30:37
Johnson County, Kansas flipped to Biden in 2020.
“When I was there in 2020, it flipped for Biden.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 30:57
Severe economic pain reduces the effectiveness of culture-war appeals.
“when the pain gets too, you know, too deep, obviously people aren't going to be, you know, palliated by”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 31:46
Culture-war strategy failed in Kansas amid severe economic pain.
“the strategy failed this time, as it does in in in in situations where the pain is bad.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 33:05
Culture-war politics fails when Democrats and Republicans offer similar economic policies.
“The other thing is it fails when there's no daylight between Democrats and Republicans.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 33:11
Creativity rhetoric rationalizes extreme economic inequality.
“it has never been. nevertheless become a way of excusing or rationalizing the sort of insane extreme inequality that we live with today.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 38:36
Creativity and innovation rhetoric helped justify tax cuts, deregulation, and trade agreements.
“It's why we cut taxes in the 70s and 80s. It's why we deregulated Wall Street in the 1990s. It's why we negotiated all of those awful trade agreements.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 40:05
Frank said decades of innovation promotion have not made society more creative.
“It's exactly the opposite.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 45:22
Writing, music, and liberal-arts scholarship are career dead ends today.
“All of them. Career dead ends today.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 45:54
U.S. innovation is declining by GDP and productivity-growth measures.
“By those standards, we are getting worse, not better.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 46:26
“Today, it's like, what, two and a half percent, two point one percent what our annual growth is.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 46:56
The U.S. is flying B-52 bombers over Iran that predate Frank’s birth.
“We're flying B-52 bombers over Iran. These are planes made before I was born.”
Open the episode · 11/10/26: Jensen Huang Scandal Explodes, Culture War Dead As Kansas Flips Blue, Tech Oligarchs Lies ExposedListen at 47:46
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