WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH BARNEY FRANK IS (ALMOST) A VOICE OF SANITY: Dying ex-Rep. Barney Frank delivers stark warning from hospice about Dems swinging too far left.
Frank is set to release a scathing book rebuking the left flank of the Democratic Party later this year. His main message to lefties is to be more strategic about how far to push on social issues.
“We didn’t get to marriage until after these other things had been resolved,” Frank argued.
“And that’s what I’m suggesting that we do today. The analogy is males and female transsexuals playing sports that are for women.”
“I understand there’s a lot of anger about that,” he continued. “And I think, in the interest of the transgender community, as well as others, it would be better to go at that in a more granular way, and not simply announce that, if you don’t support it, you’re a homophobe.”
During a recent interview with Politico, the architect of the Dodd-Frank banking regulations also cited the defund the police and open borders push as examples of lefties going too far.
“It’s one thing to advocate something knowing that you’re going beyond the current viewpoints, and another to make it a litmus test,” Frank told Politico.
He used Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner as an example of Dems moving too far too the left — after he became the presumptive nominee when Gov. Janet Mills dropped out.
“I think Platner actually shares with Trump this capacity toward making the most out of the anger that people feel,” the former congressman reflected.
“What I’m afraid of is that he won’t be able to translate that into enough votes.”
Does that mean that Frank would be okay with the man with the totenkopf tattoo if he does win in November? Communists were famously called “liberals in a hurry.” It sounds like Frank wants all or most of 2020-style wokeness to happen, just not at the pedal-to-the-floor speed that America’s leftists are pushing those ideas.
