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A former advisor to former President Bill Clinton, and a top Democrat strategist is warning Democrats of their impending doom because of their love affair with wokeism.
James Carville, who was an advisor to the 42nd President of the United States, said that the Supreme Court’s conservative Justices were emboldened to end Roe V Wade because they are not frightened of the Democrats who are obsessed with “veganism and pronouns.”
“Today they [Republicans] have no fear of Democrats, that’s why they do this. You gotta’ understand what a huge event this is in American politics … Roe v Wade is is over two-to-one in approval,” he said on “OutFront” host Erin Burnett on CNN.
“And Alito and them said we don’t care. We’re not fair, and we don’t care and all the Democrats are going to do is sit around talking about veganism and pronouns,” he said.
He did his fair share of fear mongering on the show as well.
“I hope that people understand, the Louisiana legislature passed a bill today out of committee that would make a 20-year-old young female – if she wants to get an abortion – charged with homicide,” he said.
“In Texas, the governor has challenged the right to public education for children. In Oklahoma, they passed a bill that you can’t even get an abortion [even if pregnancy is dangerous] for the mother,” the Democrat strategist said.
“They [Democrats] need to get out of Washington, and start motivating people,” he said.
He went on to talk about the leaked draft of the Roe V Wade decision motivating Democrat voters.
“’If this doesn’t motivate people, if this doesn’t get you going, then I can’t do anything to help you. And I’ll tell you who is not helping. It’s the progressive advocacy groups. No one cares what they say, no one fears them,” the Democrat strategist said.
He railed on Democrats for doing “stupid s***” like spending tons on the campaigns of Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath and South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison in 2020, who were defeated by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, respectively, as was predicted.
“They were always going to lose those races, but Democrats keep doing this stupid s***,” he said. “They’re too damn emotional. Democrats obsess over high-profile races they can’t win because that’s where all the attention is. We’re addicted to hopeless causes.”
"If this doesn't motivate people, if this doesn't get you going, then I can't do anything to help you" – Democratic strategist James Carville reacts to the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe and how his party might respond. pic.twitter.com/tY0zaTF4hW
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The Democrat strategist railed against the Party with similar complaints in January after
wo defeats: One, Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda, a multi-trillion-dollar climate and social spending measure, and two, a voting reform bill that Republicans charged would federalize nearly all elections to Democrats’ advantage.
Carville specifically pushed back on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd who was lamenting Democrats’ lack of accomplishments on those two pieces of legislation as well as the COVID-19 pandemic: “[Q]uit being a whiny party.”
“You gloat, and you promote….[Y]ou run on what you’ve got. You don’t run on what you didn’t get. And the stuff you’ve got is pretty good,” Carville, who advised former President Bill Clinton, said.
“You talk about the fact that – we pretend to care about child poverty, although no columnist that I read in the paper ever talks about it. It’s the lowest child poverty rate we’ve had in history,” Carville continued.
“We claim that we care about hourly workers. Hourly workers today have more leverage at any time they’ve ever had in my 77 years of existence on this planet, right? You talk about, we want jobs — 6.4 million jobs, more jobs than any president ever created in the first term,” he said, though the vast majority of those positions were simply being refilled after they were lost during the first year of the pandemic due to mandatory shutdowns.
Todd then asked Carville how Democrats could get those positive messages out to progressive voters who are discouraged, leading the legacy operative to respond that the party should not remain focused on “some word in a dictionary.”
For months, Carville has been warning Democrats about the pitfalls of being a “wokeness” party, describing it as “a big ‘problem’ that everyone is aware of.” He also warned that “people [are] way more interested in their lives, and how to improve them, than they are in somebody else’s pronoun or something.”
Following Democratic losses in Virginia and New Jersey in November, as well as GOP gains elsewhere, Carville proclaimed: “What went wrong was this stupid wokeness. …[Y]ou’re hurting the party. You’re hurting the very people you want to help.”
