The following article, Carville’s Chaotic Flip-Flop From Woke Whisperer to Doom Prophet, was first published on The Black Sphere.
James Carville is officially a political hack living on the muscle-memory of the Bill Clinton victory.
One would have thought that Carville would be on the dung heap of politics for his massive misstatement post-Obama. Carville declared with the Obama win that Democrats would rule politics for “a hunderd yeahs”. Well, they got eight ugly years instead. And in the end, Obama gave America Trump.
Supposedly one of the most politically savvy minds on the Left side of the aisle, Carville declared in writing that Kamala Harris would win the election. And I believe he gave 3 reasons. She lost. Big.
“America, it will all be OK,” Carville wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times published on Oct. 23. “Ms. Harris will be elected the next president of the United States.” He noted that Democratic candidates over-performed in the 2022 midterms and special elections in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.
“See 2018: the largest House landslide for Democrats in a midterm election since Watergate,” he added. “See 2020: He was decisively bucked from the White House by Joe Biden. See 2022: an embarrassment of a midterm for Republicans off the heels of Dobbs.”
Democrats hung their hopes on abortion, and were essentially one-trick ponies. As a strategist, I’m astounded that anybody would pick this as a strategy for obvious reasons which I pointed out here. But I do know that Democrats think that abortion is the reason they won the mid-terms. But what they forgot is it was their cheating that got the win.
Now Carville has shifted his tune.
Isn’t it time these pundit hacks admit the truth. Carville is paid to give hope to Democrats, and that’s what he did. Like most of these useless tools, they get trotted out at election time as experts, and miss the mark completely. And for those who claim any 2020 bona fides, let’s speak another truth: Biden was cheated into office. But I digress.
The nerve of Carville blasting Democratic strategists for the party’s ass-kicking, when he predicted the same thing. Still, Carville joined Politicon to trash Democratic consultants.
“What you’ve done ain’t worth a shit,” he said . “Get your head around that. And all of the Washington-based Democrats farting around, going to wine and cheese parties, and talking about how misogynistic the race is—get your ass out of Washington, and go work on a 2026 campaign and do penance to make up for your goddamn arrogance and stupidity.”
As for Harris’ and the Democrats’ bludgeoning, well it wasn’t just abortion that caused the mass defection. According to Carville, it’s that “identity shit,” which he claimed cost Democrats.
“We’re going to say we told you so,” he said. “We told you this identity shit was a disaster. We told you to get out in front of public safety issues. You didn’t.”
But Carville offered even more excuses after Trump took not only the Electoral College, but also the popular vote.
Along with abortion and “identity shit”, Carville blames Joe Biden for not abandoning his reelection campaign until mid-July.
In speaking of the decision to finally remove Biden as their candidate kicking and screaming, Carville said it was too late for Harris to be challenged.
Carville told MSNBC’s Ari Melber of Harris:
“We didn’t get to kick the tires, we didn’t get to look under the hood, we didn’t get to look at the trim, we were just given the keys at full sticker price, and honestly, we had no choice.”
This is the same thing Nancy Pelosi said, in intimating that Harris was not the Democrats’ first choice. This revelation surprises nobody.
Though Carville would never have admitted it pre-election, he knew Trump would win. He expressed his fears about the possibility of Trump winning, but soft-shoed it in hopes of not making it so. Or hurting his cashflow.
The way to get media during the election cycle is give pretend guarantees and eye-popping polls.
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