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My name is Thomas Frank, and there’s no way you can conclusively prove that I don’t go out in the woods and fight bears in my spare time.

More pertinently, I’m a YouTuber, author, and musician. I’m also the creator and main writer here at College Info Geek.

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I’ve always been fascinated by technology. When I was 12 years old, I started teaching myself HTML and CSS so I could build my own website. Funnily enough, the first website I ever built was a fan site for Zao – a band I hadn’t even heard at the time! I was a weird kid.

In high school, I put those web development skills to good use and started my first entrepreneurial venture. It was called Radiant Web Design, and under that name I spent a bunch of time in high school and college building websites for teachers and local companies. I also got a taste of what it was like to work for myself.

Later – right after my freshman year of college – I combined my web design knowledge with my passion for writing and started this website. At the time, College Info Geek was a way for me to share the study strategies and productivity tips that I was using to improve my own student experience.

At first, I figured the project would be nothing more than a resume-booster, but in 2013, I was able to turn it into a business and have been writing, filming videos, and recording podcasts full-time ever since.

Now, nearly 10 years later, College Info Geek has grown beyond my wildest expectations. Over 3.5 million students visited the site in the last year, and our articles and videos are used in classrooms around the world. Along the way, I:

With regards to my college experien

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Thomas Frank is a journalist and author of ten books on politics and the movements that shape political change. His most famous work, What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004), chronicled the transformation of his home state from a progressive populist hotbed to a home for modern right wing conservatism. We spoke in Madison, Wisconsin, during his current book tour.

Q:In your new book, Rendezvous with Oblivion, you write about the possibility of a re-election of Donald Trump. What factors make that a possibility?

Thomas Frank: This guy really doesn’t know how to govern and “loose cannon” is a weak metaphor. [He’s] like a B-1 bomber that is randomly blasting all over the world. But he inherited a hot booming economy––unemployment is as low as it has been in our lifetimes, and if it continues to boom like that, you will see a really tight labor market, better bargaining power for workers, and wages will go up.

Now it will be illusory, because he’s not doing it with stronger unions or a higher minimum wage. It will be a temporary phenomenon. But if it happens at the right time, it will suffice to get him re-elected.

Q: Trump has been using tariffs, saying his goal is protect jobs, but in reality, they’re having very negative impacts already being felt by U.S. farmers. How does he avoid the backlash from that?

Frank: Farmers as a group have not gone Democratic in a very long time. And these small towns, which depend on farmers, tend to be very desperate and have been moving Republican for a long time. This presents all sorts of opportunities for the Democrats, but to take advantage of those opportunities, the Democrats have to actually care about those people. So I think Trump is probably safe with those voters.

Q: In the chapter called “Making America Great Again,” you talk about h