RealClearPolitics · Aug 1, 2026 13:24 UTC

What's the Matter With Democrats?

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In the summer of 2004, as the Democratic Party hurtled toward its second defeat at the hands of George W. Bush, the Kansas City-born historian and writer Thomas Frank published What's the Matter With Kansas?

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