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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 �
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During President Clinton’s 1992 campaign against the incumbent George H.W. Bush, his senior campaign consultant, James Carville (full disclosure: I am a big fan of Mr. Carville) implored campaign workers to focus on three simple direct messages that voters could understand. The slogans included, “Change vs. More of the Same’, ‘Don’t forget healthcare’, and the infamous, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. Carville’s focus on important issues but using real language, struck a nerve in voters and Clinton was elected President.
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Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville went after his own party’s wokeness during an interview published Tuesday.
Carville slammed the jargon-y language he said is being used by some in the party to talk how everyday voters don’t, arguing it undermines the party’s ability to beat Republicans.
Vox began the interview by asking Carville what he made of President Biden’s first 100 days in office, to which Carville responded that it was difficult to find something to complain about.
Carville went on to say that Biden isn’t into faculty lounge politics, which he described as when people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people.