James Carville, a strategist for the Democratic Party, reportedly did not hold back when he delivered his post-mortem on the election of 2024 and offered some guidance to Democrats for the pending election of 2028.
Carville said in a video posted on Politicon that the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris made fundamental errors, such as Harris not selecting “her own people” and the campaign being overly directed by “identity politics.”
Increasing the minimum wage and increasing taxes on persons who make more than $400,000 annually should have been the primary focus of the message, according to his Carville
“They didn’t want to run on minimum wage because her campaign thought that would be, quote, anti-business, unquote. If somebody had said that to me, I might have punched them in the f**king mouth,” Carville said.
“I can’t stand the ‘w’ word. I call it identity politics; you can imagine what I think the ‘w’ word is. It sickens me to even use it because the word is so noble and so glorious in its origin,” he added.
Carville asserted that the host of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart, along with other individuals, had minimized the significance of “identity politics” after the fact.
“The discussion now, I saw Bill Maher, I saw Jon Stewart, I saw different people [say], did it hurt us? Of course it hurt us.” Carville continued.
One of the more pointed criticisms that Carville leveled was directed at younger Democrats who were considered to be “progressive.”
“The vice president was thinking about going on Joe Rogan’s show and a lot of the younger, progressive staffers pitched a hissy fit. Supposedly the campaign said that wasn’t the determining factor, but they did.” he said.
“When you put a campaign together and you hire young people to do work, let me tell you exactly what you tell these people, what I would tell them: Not only am I not interested in your f**king opinion, I’m not even going to call you by your name. You’re 23 years old, I don’t really give a shit what you think.” Carville concluded.
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