What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

This state that voted for- Hey everyone making your What's the Matter with Kansas jokes on Twitter. We've seen them. We've seen them all.

They are, so that's a no on the pod title?

It's just every single fucking person has some play on What's the Matter with Kansas.

I'm like none of them are funny.

They rank up there with the BFD jokes around the Inflation Reduction Act.

This state that voted for- Hey everyone making your What's the Matter with Kansas jokes on Twitter. We've seen them. We've seen them all.

It's also a sign of how old you are by the way. Were you digging deep into the Democratic Party problems in the early aughts? If so, this joke's for you. Maybe you know what that book is called.

It's the same sort of construction. Like these people are voting against their own interests. We're not the problem. If voters aren't choosing us, it's because of something that's wrong with the voters, either it's white supremacy or it's what woke derangement.

Thomas Frank is an author who wrote Listen Liberal and What's the Matter with Kansas.

There's a famous book called what's the matter with Kansas, by Thomas Frank, back in the 2000s.

People basically misconstrued his book to be like, look at these idiot whites who support Republicans.

I mean the entire thesis bet was bastardized by a lot of elite liberals, mostly the Clintons was like, look at these idiot white folks who vote for people who raise their taxes in exchange for rich people.

Now you could believe that if you want, but let me tell you something. If you're going up around a lot of very conservative white folks, like try telling, try saying that to their face. Like what do you think exactly is going to happen?

People basically misconstrued his book to be like, look at these idiot whites who support Republicans. You're talking about what's the matter with Kansas?

The entire thesis bet was bastardized by a lot of elite liberals, mostly the Clintons, was like, look at these idiot white folks who vote for people who raise their taxes in exchange for rich people.

Where was Hillary Clinton when What's the Matter with Kansas came out?

Lots of folks poured over a just released book by the great writer and social critic Thomas Frank, which became a huge bestseller called What's the Matter with Kansas? And in it, he detailed how Republicans and conservatives use these sort of culture war fights and wild accusations against liberals as a bait and switch to win over working class and rural voters and get them to vote against their economic interests.

What's the Matter with Kansas?