When the entertainers of the right arenโt declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, theyโre pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call โthe Chicago way.โ
Thomas FrankThe great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.
Thomas FrankThe only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone elseโs funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.
Thomas FrankDuring the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.
Thomas FrankGoverning was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
Thomas FrankMarkets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.
Thomas Frank