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Thomas Frank: “We are all Kansans now”
A few weeks ago, I was reading an account of the tea party movement in the NYT which pointed out that many of the movement’s recruits had suffered in some way during the recent crash and recession. A different account of the surprise Republican victory in the Massachusetts Senate race ascribed it to a huge [...]
The Coffee Party
Recently, LiberalArtsDude tipped us off to a fast-growing popular movement, The Coffee Party, which appears to be a liberal response to the Tea Party Movement.
Maryland-based documentary filmmaker Annabel Park founded the movement earlier this year getting a big response to this Facebook post: let’s start a coffee party . . . smoothie party. red bull [...]
What’s the Matter with Democrats?
Thomas Frank has a notion of what’s wrong with the Democratic Party – why it repeatedly snatches defeat from the jaws of victory:
The answer to the riddle is as plain as the caviar on a lobbyist’s spoon. Democrats don’t speak to angry, working-class people because a lot of them can’t speak to angry, working-class people. [...]
A genuine documentary film on the Tea Party movement?
Vadim Rizov laments on the IFC Blog that we probably shouldn’t hold our breath waiting for a “real” (i.e. non-partisan) documentary film on the Tea Party movement:
American political documentaries tend to either center around campaigns (“Primary” and its many heirs), specific issue-focused activism, preaching to the choir (Michael Moore and Robert Greenwald) or retroactive explanations [...]
Time for a sequel?
LiberalArtsDude has posted a thoughtful review of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” in which he gives the movie a solid 4/5 star recommendation but is left wanting more:
Fast forward to 2010 where conservative activism is explicitly angrier, economically populist and increasingly organized as in the rise of the Tea Party movement. I go back to [...]
Washington, D.C. starting March 19, 2010
Just as populism experiences a revival in our nation’s capital, powered by parties of Tea and Coffee, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?“ will open a one-week engagement at Landmark’s E Street Cinema, one of Washington, D.C.’s finest movie theaters, on Friday, March 19.
Thomas Frank and Joe Winston will hold a Q & A after the [...]
Rochester, NY – March 13, 2010 – one night only!
The nascent Coffee Party movement has declared Saturday, March 13 to be “National Coffee Party Day,” and what better way to celebrate populist revolt than to see a screening of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” The movie will play for one night as part of the film program at the Dryden Theater at the legendary [...]
Kansas City screenings begin Friday, March 12, 2010
UPDATE: due to overwhelming demand, the Kansas City run has been extended through Thursday, March 25!
“What’s the Matter with Kansas?” will open in Tom Frank’s home town on Friday, March 12, 2010, playing for a full week at the lovely Tivoli Cinemas.
Thomas Frank and director Joe Winston will appear on opening night to take questions [...]
What’s the Matter with Massachusetts?
Liberals across the country are stung by the loss of one of the most secure Democratic Senate seats to former underwear model Scott Brown.
The sudden victory by a conservative politician, backed by the Tea Partiers and conservative talk show hosts, in Massachusetts of all places, is a liberal nightmare. How could this happen?
Voters in 2008 [...]
The Tea Party takes over?
According to the New York Times, the “Tea Party” activists are actively working to take over the Republican Party at the grassroots level.
Across the country, they are signing up to be Republican precinct leaders, a position so low-level that it often remains vacant, but which comes with the ability to vote for the party executives [...]
Sarah Palin for Something in 2010
As the year winds down, we students of conservative populism will make one prediction for 2010: we’ll all be hearing a lot more from Sarah Palin.
While Politco notes that she’s the second-most admired woman in America, the New York Review of Books makes an excellent case for her relevance, and her genius for prompting conservative [...]