Dying ex-Rep. Barney Frank delivers stark warning – Business News
Liberal icon, former Rep. Barney Frank, who’s dying of congestive coronary heart failure, spoke out from hospice to ship a stark warning to Democrats for swinging too far to the left on social points — and stated it’s going to price them with voters.
The 86-year-old former congressman, who is known for combating to legalize same-sex marriage and pushing to manage Wall Street after the 2008 financial meltdown, hopes his lefty bona fides will help his message resonate with the far left.
Jake Tapper interviewed Frank on CNN, with the previous Dem rep talking from hospice care. CNN
Former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., attends a invoice enrollment ceremony after the House handed the Respect for Marriage Act within the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, December 8, 2022. CQ-Roll Call, Inc through Getty Images
“It’s precisely because I have been on the left that I have undertaken this,” Frank advised 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.”
Frank is set to release a scathing e book rebuking the left flank of the Democratic Party later this yr. His most important message to lefties is to be more strategic about how far to push on social points.
“We didn’t get to marriage until after these other things had been resolved,” Frank argued.
Frank waits for signatures to the National Rep. petition on the Newton bus stop on Winter Street. Boston Globe through Getty Images
“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 current interview with Politico, the architect of the Dodd-Frank banking laws additionally cited the defund the police and open borders push as examples of lefties going too far.
