Problemet som diskuteres i denne anmeldelsen av to bøker om "Limousine liberals" gjelder også her hjemme. Arbeidere og lavinntektsgrupper har mistet sin politiske representasjon og søker derfor utenfor etablerte partier etter løsninger som gavner dem.
Echoing the historian Lily Geismer, Frank argues that the Democratic Party — once “the Party of the People” — now caters to the interests of a “professional-managerial class” consisting of lawyers, doctors, professors, scientists, programmers, even investment bankers. These affluent city dwellers and suburbanites believe firmly in meritocracy and individual opportunity, but shun the kind of social policies that once gave a real leg up to the working class. In the book, Frank points to the Democrats’ neglect of organized labor and support for Nafta as examples of this sensibility, in which “you get what you deserve, and what you deserve is defined by how you did in school.” In more recent columns, he has linked this neglect to the rise of a figure like Sanders, who says forthrightly what the party leadership might prefer to obscure: Current approaches aren’t working — and unless something dramatic happens, Americans are heading for a society in which a tiny elite controls most of the wealth, *resources and decision-making power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/books/review/listen-liberal-and-the-limousine-liberal.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0