Last week,The Gateway Pundit reportedthat former Democrat Rep. Barney Frank has entered hospice care.
Barney Frank, 86, is in hospice care at his home in Maine, where he resides with his husband. Frank is suffering from congestive heart failure.
A frail looking Frank spoke with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday and warned his party about drifting too far left.
Jake Tapper:You are a progressive icon, but now you are expressing some reservations about where the progressive movement has gone. Tell us more.
Barney Frank:Yes, I know. I’ve been trying to decide, by the way, personally, whether it’s better to be an icon or an emoji. I haven’t decided that yet.
But, um, as far as this is concerned, it’s precisely because I have been on the left that I’ve undertaken this. I think we’re in a situation where the mainstream, to my disappointment, for many years ignored inequality. And many of us fought to get inequality on the Democratic agenda.
But the problem was, as we succeeded in bringing the mainstream of the left into a concern with inequality, we also enabled people who wanted to use that as a platform for a wide range of social and cultural changes, some of which the public isn’t ready for.
Even when I agree with them on the end, I think they make a mistake by taking the most controversial parts of the agenda and turning them into litmus tests.
For example, same-sex marriage. Obviously, I’ve been working for gay rights starting in 1972 when I filed a bill. And we, in the movement, established fairness for gay and lesbian and bisexual people, we picked to work on those issues which were more acceptable.
We didn’t get to marriage until after these other things had been resolved. And that’s what I’m suggesting that we do today.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
