he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In a peculiar way, Parrington seemed to think, Kansas was one of the birthplaces of literary modernism.

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“Backlash culture abounds with tall tales of liberal out control hippies spitting on [Vietnam War] veterans with Jane Fonda narking on POWs to their Vietnamese captors…”
“Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think. What's the Matter with Kansas? (film) 2009 documentary movie based on Thomas Frank's best-selling book of the same name. Politics
Frank started his political journey as a College Republican but has come to be highly critical of conservatism especially the presidency of George W.

Frank is a historian of culture and ideas and analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda advertising popular culture mainstream journalism and economics. Thomas Frank (born March 21 1965) is an American author journalist and columnist for Harper's Magazine. With his writing he explores the rhetoric and impact of the 'Culture Wars' in American political life and the relationship between politics and culture in the United States.