"When I decided, finally, to come out in '87, it just struck me when I did that ... the American people are a lot less homophobic than they thought they were supposed to be," he said.
"More racist, unfortunately, but less homophobic."
"For a lot of my colleagues, the argument has been, well, we don't support defund the police or open borders, and we don't say we do,'" Frank said. "But my point is, no, it's not enough ... to be silent. We have to explicitly repudiate it."
He says he's "not arguing that anybody should stop his or her advocacy."
"But it's one thing to advocate something knowing that you're going beyond the current viewpoints, and another to make it a litmus test," he said.
"One of my regrets," he said, "is that I won't see the continued implosion of [President] Donald Trump."
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Sounds more like a complaint that Dems should be more aggressive. Um, OK!
