COLUMNIST: Barney Frank's Deafening Whisper

COLUMNIST: Barney Frank's Deafening Whisper

BOSTON — As he lies dying, the man who once snarled from the floor of the House of Representatives — whose rhetorical rockets’ red blare mercilessly exposed the logistical flaws in the arguments of his overmatched opponents, whose piercing, pitiless…

Barney Frank’s complaint about activists is the same one he’s been making for decades

Barney Frank’s life is coming to a close, but he wouldn’t be Barney Frank without wanting to get one last word in. Despite being in hospice care and appearing very frail, Frank has been making the rounds on television, plugging a new book, which assails the current attack on democracy–made by the left. “By not repudiating some of these politically toxic demands for fundamental social change, the mainstream allowed the public to think that these …