Barney Frank became a progressive icon representing the limousine liberal suburbs of Newton and Brookline in suburban Boston for over three decades before retiring in 2013.

Whatever the cause, Frank was there: the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulation of Wall Street, gay rights, housing policy – to carry the Left’s water.

But now, Frank is 86 and entering hospice care as his congestive heart condition worsens.

But he’s still talking!

Politico reports “as one of his last acts, he is preparing to release a book repudiating his party’s left flank.” The reason is that he’s worried progressive have “embraced an agenda that goes beyond what’s politically acceptable.”

Frank worries his party has failed to unite around an agenda of shared prosperity and focused instead on the politically toxic social agenda of “the left wing of the left wing’s left.”―especially on immigration, policing, and identity politics.

“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 adds: “many of my colleagues who I know agree with me but are inhibited from saying so.”

We continue to disagree with Barney Frank on a host of issues, but we admire his courage.