"Stupid
wokeness."
The Point with Chris Cillizza - CNN
Democratic "Stupid wokeness." Is alive and roaming around the
(No longer so
United States of America)
once Again!
Both James Carville
and I along with far too few others have been screaming until blue in the face about our political “Stiff
Neck Party”!
Idiom: Blue in the face (meaning
& examples)
James Carville knows exactly why his party lost
so badly on Tuesday: "Stupid wokeness."
That's the blunt
diagnosis of the man who famously guided Bill Clinton to the White House in the
early 1990s.
"Don't just look at Virginia and New
Jersey," Carville
told PBS' Judy Woodruff. "Look
at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle,
Washington. I mean, this 'defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham
Lincoln's name off of schools. I mean that — people see that."
This is not a new view for Carville.
Back in July, in an
interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, Carville said the party's emphasis on "woke" issues was endangering
its ability to keep its House and Senate
majorities.
"We're letting a noisy wing of our party
define the rest of us. And my point is we can't do that," Carville
told Cuomo. "I think these
people are all kind of nice people. I think they're very naive, and they're all
into language and identity. And that's all right. They're not storming the
Capitol. But they're not winning elections."
Carville's argument
is that by focusing on removing statues
or defunding the police or on proper pronouns for transgender students,
Democrats are talking too much about issues that matter less to a broad swath of Americans than, say, the
economy.
"Some of these people need to go to a
'woke' detox center or something," Carville told Woodruff.
"They're expressing a language that people just don't use, and there's
backlash and a frustration at that."
Ex-Clinton strategist suggests ‘woke
detox center’ for ...
There's evidence from Virginia that Carville is
on to something. Gov.-elect
Glenn Youngkin (R) centered his campaign on alleged wokeness in education -- from mask mandates to critical race theory
to transgender issues.
And more than half of Virginia voters (51%) said
the Democratic Party was "too liberal" in exit
polling out of Tuesday's races. Youngkin
won 87% of the vote among that group.
The
Point:
Carville's
complaints about wokeness have generally been dismissed
as the views of a formerly great strategist
who is no longer in touch with modern politics.
But,
after Tuesday,
Democrats should bring Carville in and listen
to every word he says.
-- Chris
