New Economic Perspectives: The Liberals Didn’t Listen - The Immense Cost of Ignoring Tom Frank’s Warnings. November 09, 2016 by Garret Vreeland in Economics, History, Human Rights, Politics Hillary did not simply fail to reach out to the working class voters that the New Democrats had turned their backs on for decades, she infamously attacked them as “deplorables.” This was exactly the group of potential voters that was enraged because it believed, correctly as Tom Frank keeps showing us, that the New Democrats looked down on them and adopted policies that rigged the system against the working class.