James Carville, a democratic strategist, is very upset with some far-left and “insurgent” democrats.He warns that these people might be making the party lose in a way similar to 2016 when Donald Trump was first elected.
In a video on Friday for Politicon, Carville talked about the recent wins of far-left and democratic socialist candidates.
These candidates are even beating long-time democrats in their own parties.
In New York, Brad Lander beat Rep.
Dan Goldman and Democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier beat Rep.Adriano Espaillat.In Colorado, Democratic socialist Melat Kiros beat Rep.Diana DeGette.
Carville said that these far-left democrats, including Michigan’s controversial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, are running against both parties.
He also talked about the 2016 presidential election and called it the “most catastrophic event of this century.” He blamed this on Sen.Bernie Sanders, calling him an “insurgent” liberal.
Sanders ran for the democratic presidential nomination in 2016, but eventually dropped out and later endorsed Hillary Clinton.
Carville said the fight between Sanders and Clinton was too bitter and that Sanders was turning off working voters in states like Pennsylvania from supporting Clinton and the democrats, because they stayed in the race too long.
Now, Carville says the new wave of democrats are doing the same thing.
He dismissed the idea that there’s no difference between establishment democrats and establishment republicans.
“These people are so f*cking stupid I don’t know what to say about it,” he said.
“So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats — and what is their solution?”
“Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans?
No!Their solution is to beat Democrats like they’re part of the problem.You are part of the problem because you’re a f*cking idiot!”
Carville warned democrats not to “fall for the allure of false prophets” and accused far-left candidates of just trying to sell themselves as “superior” to both parties.
He said this strategy could backfire.
“It’s not both parties’ faults!
One party expanded health insurance, all right?Another party destroyed it.One party balanced the budget and created economic prosperity.The other party destroyed it.One party brought about a deal to with Iran’s nuclear program.Another party destroyed it,” he said.
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