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“This ‘too cool for school’ sh t doesn’t work, and we have to stop it.” So says James Carville, the legendary mastermind of Bill Clinton’s presidential victory in 1992 and the man who coined the axiom “It’s the economy, stupid.” Now, however, Carville warns Vox’s Sean Illing that it’s the stupidity that concerns him most and other Democrats, at least privately.
“Wokeness is a problem,” Carville tells Illing, “and everyone knows it.” The remark comes as Carville praises Joe Biden for avoiding “faculty lounge politics”:
CARVILLE: You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like “Latinx” that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like “communities of color.” I don’t know anyone who speaks like that. I don’t know anyone who lives in a “community of color.” I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in �