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Former Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, in hospice care, went on national television Sunday to warn Democrats they have moved too far left.

Frank, 86, is dealing with congestive heart failure at his home in Ogunquit, Maine, the Boston Globereported. The Massachusetts Democrat served 32 years in the House and co-authored the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

FranktoldCNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that his record gives the message weight. “It’s precisely because I have been on the left that I have undertaken this,” Frank said. He named trans athletes in women’s sports as a debate Democrats should approach carefully rather than treat as a loyalty test.

“I understand there’s a lot of anger about that,” Frank told CNN. “And I think, in the interest of the transgender community, as well as others, it would be better to go at that in a more granular way, and not simply announce that, if you don’t support it, you’re a homophobe.”

FranktoldPolitico the party must explicitly reject positions like defunding the police and open borders. “For a lot of my colleagues, the argument has been, ‘well, we don’t support defund the police or open borders, and we don’t say we do,’” Frank told Politico. “But my point is, no, it’s not enough … to be silent. We have to explicitly repudiate it.”

Frank cited Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner as an example, the Politico reported. Maine Gov. Janet Millsexitedthe Democratic primary last week citing fundraising trouble,accordingto NBC News, leaving Platner as the presumptive nominee against Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Platner has comeunder firefor past Reddit posts and a tattoo resembling the Nazi SS Totenkopf emblem, the New York Postreported. NBC News reported that the posts called police “bastards” and minimized sexual assault, and that Platner has since covered the tattoo.

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren endorsed Platner, NBC reported. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Tim Scott called him “a phony who is too extreme for Maine.”

Frank also discussed President Donald Trump. He told CNN Trump is an “idiot savant” who was “good at one thing and terrible at everything else.” Frank told Politico one of his regrets is that he “won’t see the continued implosion of Donald Trump.”

Source: The Vigilant Fox