Posted on 02/09/2020 7:24:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Democrat strategist James Carville warned that the smug, urbanist mindset is causing the Democratic Party to be distracted by the wrong issues.
Democratic strategist James Carville unleashed on 2020 Democratic candidates for pulling the party too far left and warned Democrats are at risk of seeming “culturally arrogant” to the working class. His rant began on a viral MSNBC segment this week after the chaos of the Iowa caucuses, then he extended his admonishments in an interview with Vox.
Vox Writer Sean Illing seemed to question whether Carville’s strong reaction was warranted. Are Democrats “really destroying the party?” he asked. “What does that even mean?” Carville admitted that at the end of the day, he would vote for Bernie Sanders should he win the nomination, but reiterated, as someone who lives in the South, that the Democratic Party should not represent themselves to the public as socialists like Sanders. Here are the top warnings Carville issued to elite, coastal Democrats.
Carville complained how candidates spending time on the debate stage discussing issues that do not win on a national level, issues like: open borders, decriminalizing illegal immigration, banning nuclear energy, banning fracking, giving criminals and terrorists in jail the right to vote, and more distractions.
He reflected on how Democrats won in 2018 by doing the opposite. “We just had an election in 2018. We did great. We talked about everything we needed to talk about and we won. And now it’s like we’re losing our d-mn minds.”
How do Democrats create a winning message? “By framing, repeating, and delivering a coherent, meaningful message that is relevant to people’s lives and having the political skill not to be sucked into every rabbit hole that somebody puts in front of you,” he said.
Carville praised ideas like Sen. Cory Booker’s “baby bonds plans,” which would deposit taxpayer dollars in an investment account for every child born to a low-income person, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s government child care plans as the “kind of thing the party could connect to people’s actual lives.”
Carville stressed that becoming a majoritarian party was critical, and going far-left with Sanders so quickly is not the path to Democrat power.
“Eighteen percent of the population controls 52 Senate seats,” Carville said. “We’ve got to be a majoritarian party. The urban core is not gonna get it done. What we need is power! Do you understand? That’s what this is about.”
Carville said the purpose of a political party is to acquire power. “Without power, nothing matters.”
Carville warned that the smug, urbanist mindset was causing candidates to be distracted by the wrong issues and to lose connection with people in the South and the middle of the country.
He gave the example of New York Times writer Binyamin Appelbaum, who recently posted a “snarky tweet” about Louisiana State University.
LSU cancelled all classes, for everyone, for two days, because its football team is playing for the national championship.
Obviously LSU's professional football players aren't there for the classes, but this is some next-level stuff.https://t.co/UKXevWla1T
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) January 14, 2020
“You know how f—ing patronizing that is to people in the South or in the middle of the country?” Carville asked. “We can’t win the Senate by looking down at people. The Democratic Party has to drive a narrative that doesn’t give off vapors that we’re smarter than everyone or culturally arrogant.”
When Illing suggested former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg seemed to be a more moderate candidate than Sanders, and thus more likely to beat Donald Trump, Carville pointed out Buttigieg’s biggest weakness: African American voters.
“Mayor Pete has to demonstrate over the course of a campaign that he can excite and motivate arguably the most important constituents in the Democratic Party: African Americans. These voters are a h-ll of a lot more important than a bunch of 25-year-olds shouting everyone down on Twitter,” he said.
You're right - that's how the scam works - run the kind of people who look decent to everyday Americans then when they get elected - and to DC -strip them of any real power and use them create the 'majority' democrat thugs and 'elites' need to do their damage...
The icing on the 'every two years scam' cake is to get their hacks in the press to gush about how 'conservative' these shills are...
Pissing into a strong left crosswind there James. Watch the back-splash.
Thats exactly how i read it. They have not done a damn thing they said they were gonna do and not a damn thing for American citizens.
They have to get 'em legal first.
Many illegals are already Socialists, thus their appeal to them.
They bugged out for "greener pastures" when their own countries hit the skids. (typical of Socialists...spread misery)
They won't mind the chains as they're already used to it.
A lot of Hispanic Americans don't like Dems much.
They've seen what they did to African Americans
and they want no part of it.
It cannot apply to women who can't keep their legs closed. I would be open to the idea of inmates that do good time.
Number 3 is frightening. It is frightening because he isn’t talking about the kind of power that helps citizens.
Almost sounds like a line from Atlas Shrugged:
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... “
they seem to have no problem voting in states like CA
That tells everybody a lot about California, doesn't it.
100%
Carville is a fast, furious and enthusiastic liar. He covered for the creep who sold everything that wasn’t nailed down and screwed - or raped - nearly everything in a skirt or thong, and did it all, in my opinion, for the fame, power and money. He and those liars of his ilk stood silently as the left continued this drift toward total lawlessness. Now he’s worried? About what? He has his comfortable retirement, thanks to his career as a sleazeball.
Oh yeah. That seems like a winner. Let's roll with that one.
Excellent! The nice thing is the Left hates too much to change...
Note: this topic is from . Thanks again Robert A Cook PE. How'd they do?
Democrats going full commie hurts more than democrats - it puts the whole country at risk.
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