James Carville, the legendary Democratic guru and former torpedo for the Clinton Crime Family, has a message for his party: Stop obsessing about West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, one of the last of t... View MoreJames Carville, the legendary Democratic guru and former torpedo for the Clinton Crime Family, has a message for his party: Stop obsessing about West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, one of the last of the moderate Democrats, and stop wasting money on unwinnable races.
He also told Vox scribe Sean Illing that wacky progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (also known as Occasional-Cortex) have a tiny — very tiny — constituency.
Most Democrats are pretty much normal Americans like Manchin, he suggested. They aren’t unhinged demoniacs and broom-riding harpies who demand defunding police, slavery reparations, and partial-birth abortion.
I’ll Back Manchin
The occasion of the chin-wag with the leftist rag’s reporter was the latter’s indigestion caused by the failure of “Let’s Go Brandon” to accomplish anything.
“President Joe Biden’s agenda has stalled, Democrats are in disarray, and one villain looms especially large in the Democratic base’s mind: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.” Illing continued:
You can see where the critics are coming from. Manchin’s refusal to budge on issues like voting rights, his incoherent defense of the filibuster, and his opposition to programs like the child tax credit, which would so obviously help his constituents escape poverty, are hard to accept from this vantage.
Then again, he continued, Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in the Mountain State like a rented mule — the former POTUS shellacked him by 39 points. Thus, maybe Democrats are lucky Manchin even has the seat.
So Illing dialed Carville.
Carville first explained that Sleepy Joe doesn’t have the majorities that predecessors Bill Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama did, which is why his best laid plans are dead in the water (at least except for The Great Replacement).
Biden faces a 50-50 Senate, so the party must look to winning a couple more Senate seats in November’s midterms. That’s one reason Carville will support Manchin:
Manchin is a Roman Catholic Democrat in a state in which not a single county has voted Democrat [for president] since 2008. I repeat: not a single county has voted Democrat since 2008.
Politics is about choices, and he’s up for reelection in 2024. If Manchin runs for reelection, I’ll do everything I can to help him because it’s either going to be Joe Manchin or Marsha Blackburn. It ain’t Joe Manchin or Ed Markey. You got to understand that. It’s really that damn simple.
Carville delivered the bad news that the leftist blogosphere, its torch-bearing Twitter mob, and their phalanx on Capitol Hill could, figuratively speaking, hold meetings in the back seat of a Volkswagen.
“Look, I’m a liberal Democrat. Always have been,” he said,
But some of these people bitching about Manchin can’t see political reality straight. Six percent of adults in this country identify as “progressive.” Only 11 or 12 percent of Democrats identify as progressive. So let’s just meet in the middle and say something like 7 or 8 percent of the country agrees with the progressive left. This ain’t a goddamn debate anymore. Someone like Manchin is closer to the mainstream than a lot of these people think, and pretending like he isn’t won’t help the cause.
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The leftist radical messages are still resonating in academia, newsrooms, and foundations; and open borders, defunding police, and emptying jails are “defining the party.”
“But I still believe that 2018 and 2020 showed that if you engage in the fundamentals of politics, you can win elections in the... View MoreThe leftist radical messages are still resonating in academia, newsrooms, and foundations; and open borders, defunding police, and emptying jails are “defining the party.”
“But I still believe that 2018 and 2020 showed that if you engage in the fundamentals of politics, you can win elections in the United States,” Carville said:
Democrats must keep pounding the most powerful message you have to the most people you can. Over and over again.
As both men confessed, the most powerful messages the party sends are from its unhinged, near-communist wing of angry radicals — and the leftist mainstream media amplifies those messages because its worthies agree with them; there’s no moderation for them.
The problem is, Democrats like Manchin and Sinema can’t be heard over their megaphone.