The Hi guys, welcome to the Katie Helper Show. Just wanted to give you guys a chance to hear some hot takes about Alexandria

Acasio-Portez wins. So what I do on this special episode is I speak to a

bunch of different people and I collect their thoughts and this is also a reminder

that if you want to hear more about the Democrats, more about how

traditional Democrats are failing more about why someone like Alexandria

Acasio Cortez a DSA member Democratic Socialist of America

someone who opposes ICE someone who calls for the abolition of ice.

If you want to hear about how and why people like that

are winning elections, you can get a great insight into that

at our live taping tonight, June 30th, depending

when you're listening to this, hopefully you're listening to it, the day of June 30th depending on when you're listening to this.

Hopefully you're listening to it the day of, June 30th is not.

Hopefully you can't do the show anyway.

And you'll be able to see it, hear it when we release it later.

But I'm referring to our live taping at Cavia at 21 Clinton Street with none other than Thomas Frank.

Thomas Frank of course is the writer of Listen Liberal or whatever happened to the party of the people.

He's also the author of What's the Matter with Kansas.

Any rights for places like the Guardian and Harpers.

And he has a very interesting trajectory going from a kind of frequently cited pundit to someone who writes more

for the non-American press and that's for reasons that we'll get into tonight

but spoiler alert has something to do with him with his being critical of Democrats.

In fact, I asked Thomas Frank to leave a very brief assessment of what the takeaway from the Alexandria

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