Historian Thomas Frank On President Trump, Partisanship And His New Book “Rendezvous with Oblivion”

As Republicans and Democrats trade partisan attacks back and forth, members of the right and the left are retreating further into their corners. Author and historian Thomas Frank, predicted much of this in one of Jim Braude’s favorite books, What's the Matter with Kansas, which discussed working class Americans voting against their economic self-interests. In his latest, Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society, Frank dissects a decade of relentless capitalism, and the wave of angry populism that drove the 2016 election. He joined Jim Braude to discuss.