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Former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank has a message for progressives as he enters hospice: “I think they make a mistake by taking the most controversial parts of the agenda and turning them into a litmus test.” pic.twitter.com/duT7MRSu8O
“It’s precisely because I have been on the left that I have undertaken this,” Frank told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “Many of us fought to get inequality on the Democratic agenda.”
“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.”
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