Kansas and Kentucky Show How Democrats Can Win in 2020: Support Public Education
5 min readDec 1, 2019
Back in 2004, Thomas Frank’s book What’s the Matter with Kansas? elevated the state as the textbook case of how the Republican party has been able to leverage a platform of conservative social values to sway the electorate to vote against its economic interests. Railing against abortion, affirmative action, big government, elitism, political…