Thomas Frank Phones It In For Kansas City

Fun fact . . .

Every progressive white lady in Kansas City & Johnson County has read this Thomas Frank's greatest work and has been using the tome to ruin Thanksgiving since 2004.

Recently, the author took a phone call with a high class local mag and shared a few insights about red state voting in the aftermath of Roe V. Wade's decline and surprising political push back from voters which nobody wants to discount as a single-issue one-off . . . Here's the word in a worthwhile interview: 

"If you live in Kansas City and you work in the information industry or you’re a member of the professional class or you do some kind of creative work, things are great. Kansas City’s a really nice place to live. If you live almost anywhere else in the surrounding states, your way of life is crumbling. That really bothers me. In all my years covering politics, I haven’t seen anyone even try to come up with an answer for that."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

IN Conversation with Thomas Frank - In Kansas City

In photographs, the most famous muckraker of Mission Hills, Thomas Frank, is always smiling, even when it looks like he's trying not to. On the phone, his rising inflection and buoyant laugh leave the impression that humor is a life ring that keeps him from sinking into pessimism about the sorry state of American politics...