Thomas Frank On How The Democratic Party Lost Touch With The People (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

The Democratic Party of the 20th century helped rally the nation during the Great Depression, championed organized labor, and government action to relieve the sufferings of poverty and the injustice of discrimination. Author Thomas Frank has published a scathing critique of this latest Democratic Party, version 2.0 you might say. He concludes that old Party is dead. This hour On Point, do today’s liberals really care about working people? — Ray Suarez
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/03/21/democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders-2016-election