Thomas Frank > Quotes

“The leaders of the backlash may talk Christ, but they walk corporate. Values may “matter most” to voters, but they always take a backseat to the needs of money once the elections are won. (Page 6)”
― Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

“American conservatism depends for its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making certain mental connections about the world, connections that where until recently treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet. For example, the connection between mass culture, most of which conservatives hate, and laissez-faire capitalism, which they adore without reservation. Or between the small towns they profess to love and the market forces that are slowly grinding those small towns back into red-state dust-which forces they praise in the most exalted terms.”
― Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America