Carville tells Dems to quit ‘f—ing around’ with wokeness, embrace populism
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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville argued Friday that the changing economy is leaving young people behind and Democrats must abandon radical cultural agendas to win their support.
Commentators on both the left and the right have warned that an affordability crisis is emerging as young people struggle to join the middle class and achieve the same lifestyle enjoyed by previous generations. As housing prices continue to rise, employers in key industries are relying more on foreign H-1B visa workers, contributing to tougher competition for even entry-level jobs.
Carville has repeatedly told Democrats there is a clear path to victory if they put aside “woke” ideology and appeal to the rising tide of populism on both sides of politics.
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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville warned that young people have every right to be angry about not having access to the economic opportunities that previous generations enjoyed, and that the political system will either find a practical way to appease them or face some “ugly” fixes. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SCAD)
Carville said the affordability crisis is likely to continue for now due to the rising cost of living.
“There are a number of ways to attack this, but one way is to pay people more. And if you look, if you want to know the outrage in this country since then, let’s say the 2009 starting point, 2010, and you look at corporate profit growth and real hourly wage growth – I will just say that the economic system in the United States needs to change and has gone too far in favoring the elderly, favoring the elderly, favoring the savers, favoring the homeowners, favoring everything we all own – and that’s “It’s causing the destruction of the younger generation.”
Carville warned: “And I’m telling you, you know, I used to tell everybody the same thing: ‘You better fix it, or it’s going to be okay for you, and it’s not; when it’s fixed for you, it’s going to be ugly. People are sick of it.'”
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Carville has repeatedly told the Democratic Party that it has a clear path to victory if it leaves far-left cultural agendas behind and embraces economics. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Politicon)
then carville He called out Democrats and said they needed to stop being distracted by unpopular culture-war issues and refocus.
“I think Democrats, as I said in the piece, need to stop worrying about all this cultural stuff and start talking about people’s wages, start talking about what we can do to protect people who are trying to make it, especially young people,” he said, noting how difficult it is to find a job in the current job market. “It’s incredible. We sit there and tell them how well they did it.”
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Carville argued that it was absurd to tell young people how well they were doing when they were clearly struggling. (Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Amazon Studios)
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