Former Rep. Barney Frank, 86 years old and dying of congestive heart failure, is spending what he knows are his final days doing something almost no prominent Democrat will do: telling his own party, plainly, that its embrace of far-left social causes is driving voters away.
Frank, the Massachusetts liberal who fought to legalize same-sex marriage and authored the Dodd-Frank banking regulations after the 2008 financial meltdown, made the case Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” and in a recent interview with Politico. He is also preparing to release a book later this year that rebukes the left flank of the Democratic Party. The man is in hospice. He has no elections to win, no donors to court, no primary to survive. That makes what he’s saying harder to dismiss.
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