So I’m a big JAMES Carville fan (saw him speak, met him, etc)....his positions, ability to see the issues and read the voter are all Jedi-like. I disagree with him on things, but he’s awesome.
So he gave an interview to Vox (certified garbage site) and nailed it once again. It’s a must read for anyone following politics, right or left. Carville is brilliant and 1000% right.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...james-carville
We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party
Favorite parts:
Can I say one more thing about the cultural disconnect?
Sean Illing
Sure.
James Carville
I want to give you an example of the problem here. A few weeks ago, Binyamin Appelbaum, an economics writer for the New York Times, posted a snarky tweet about how LSU canceled classes for the National Championship game. And then he said, do the “Warren/Sanders free public college proposals include LSU, or would it only apply to actual schools?”
You know how fucking patronizing that is to people in the South or in the middle of the country? First, LSU has an unusually high graduation rate, but that’s not the point.
It’s the goddamn smugness. This is from a guy who lives in New York and serves on the Times editorial board and there’s not a single person he knows that doesn’t pat him on the back for that kind of tweet. He’s so fucking smart.
Appelbaum doesn’t speak for the Democratic Party, but he does represent the urbanist mindset. 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.
This ^ is brilliant. this is where the Democratic Party lost a lot of folks, including me