Democratic strategist James Carville doubled down Saturday on Democrats’ wokeness problem that he says could cost the party dearly in 2022 and 2024.
Carville joined CNN’s Michael Smerconish to discuss the issue, and he argued that the fixation on wokeness was preventing Democrats from reaching real people and costing them voters.
“Correct me if I am wrong, it is questioning — not that you are questioning any one aspect of what gets lumped into wokeness but I think you are saying as a political strategy this dog doesn’t hunt,” Smerconish prompted after introducing Carville. “It doesn’t hunt on several levels,” Carville said, adding that in politics the best way to reach the people was to speak their language. “Address people as they address each other, not like the humanities department at Amherst wants you to address everybody.”
Carville went on to note that the effects were already visible in the results of the 2020 congressional races, saying that slogans like “defund the police” had cost Democrats in more moderate districts.
Great food in New Orleans. Also nice place to visit, but not live there.
Defund some Democrats.