{"id":967291,"date":"2021-11-04T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=967291"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:44:38","slug":"james-carville-blames-stupid-wokeness-for-election-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-carville-blames-stupid-wokeness-for-election-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"James Carville Blames \u2018Stupid Wokeness\u2019 For Election Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjames-carville-blames-stupid-wokeness-for-election-losses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=967291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville has a way of cutting through the BS.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Bill Clinton during his 1992 presidential run, he famously told campaign staffers, \u201cIt\u2019s the economy, stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So political pundits turned to him after the Democrats\u2019 disastrous Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat went wrong is just stupid wokeness,\u201d Carville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/why-the-dem-strategy-in-virginia-failed-and-how-youngkin-flipped-the-state\">told<\/a> Judy Woodruff on \u201cPBS Newshour\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, don\u2019t just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Washington. I mean, this \u2018defund the police\u2019 lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln\u2019s name off of schools. I mean that \u2014 people see that,\u201d Carville said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just really \u2014 has a suppressive effect all across the country on the Democrats. Some of these people need to go to a \u2018woke\u2019 detox center or something,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re expressing a language that people just don\u2019t use, and there\u2019s backlash and a frustration at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carville pointed out that Republican Glenn Youngkin, who knocked out longtime Clinton fundraiser Terry McAuliffe to win the gubernatorial election in Virginia, didn\u2019t target President Joe Biden, even as McAuliffe repeatedly tried to tie Youngkin to former President Donald Trump. Instead, Youngkin stuck to local issues.<\/p>\n<p>The strategist said Democrats are too focused on woke language.&nbsp;\u201cWe got to change this and not be about changing dictionaries and change laws,\u201d Carville said. \u201cThese faculty lounge people that sit around mulling about I don\u2019t know what. They\u2019re not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carville also mocked the leftist protests in Seattle, including the creation of an anti-police \u201cautonomous zone.\u201d When voters went to the polls on Tuesday, local outlets project that they elected a Republican as Seattle city attorney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutonomous zone? Who could even think of something that stupid?!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Carville has repeatedly ripped Democrats about moving too far left, noting that most Americans are close to the middle.&nbsp;\u201cAnd I got news for you, you\u2019re hurting the party, you\u2019re hurting the very people that you want to help!\u201d Carville said.<\/p>\n<p>His analysis was similar to those by political analysts&nbsp; Van Jones and David Axelrod on CNN, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/news\/2021-11-03-0802\/cnns-van-jones-david-axelrod-rip-fellow-democrats-annoying-and-offensive-out\">said<\/a> Democrats lost big on Election Day because they are out of touch with mainstream America and, worse, are \u201cannoying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the Democrats are coming across in ways that we don\u2019t recognize that are annoying and offensive, and seem out of touch in ways that I don\u2019t think show up in our feeds, when we\u2019re looking at our kind of echo chamber,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville has a way of cutting through the BS.Working with Bill Clinton during his 1992 presidential run, he famously told campaign staffers, \u201cIt\u2019s the economy, stupid.\u201dSo political pundits turned to him after the Democrats\u2019 disastrous Election Day.\u201cWhat went wrong is just stupid wokeness,\u201d Carville told Judy Woodruff on \u201cPBS Newshour\u201d on Wednesday.\u201cAll right, don\u2019t just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Washington. I mean, this \u2018defund the police\u2019 lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln\u2019s name off of schools. I mean that \u2014 people see that,\u201d Carville said.\u201cIt\u2019s just really \u2014 has a suppressive effect all across the country on the Democrats. Some of these people need to go to a \u2018woke\u2019 detox center or something,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re expressing a language that people just don\u2019t use, and there\u2019s backlash and a frustration at that.\u201dCarville pointed out that Republican Glenn Youngkin, who knocked out longtime Clinton fundraiser Terry McAuliffe to win the gubernatorial election in Virginia, didn\u2019t target President Joe Biden, even as McAuliffe repeatedly tried to tie Youngkin to former President Donald Trump. Instead, Youngkin stuck to local issues.The strategist said Democrats are too focused on woke language.\u00a0\u201cWe got to change this and not be about changing dictionaries and change laws,\u201d Carville said. \u201cThese faculty lounge people that sit around mulling about I don\u2019t know what. They\u2019re not working.\u201dCarville also mocked the leftist protests in Seattle, including the creation of an anti-police \u201cautonomous zone.\u201d When voters went to the polls on Tuesday, local outlets project that they elected a Republican as Seattle city attorney.\u201cAutonomous zone? Who could even think of something that stupid?!\u201d he said.Carville has repeatedly ripped Democrats about moving too far left, noting that most Americans are close to the middle.\u00a0\u201cAnd I got news for you, you\u2019re hurting the party, you\u2019re hurting the very people that you want to help!\u201d Carville said.His analysis was similar to those by political analysts\u00a0 Van Jones and David Axelrod on CNN, who said Democrats lost big on Election Day because they are out of touch with mainstream America and, worse, are \u201cannoying.\u201d\u201cI think that the Democrats are coming across in ways that we don\u2019t recognize that are annoying and offensive, and seem out of touch in ways that I don\u2019t think show up in our feeds, when we\u2019re looking at our kind of echo chamber,\u201d Jones said, pretending to scroll through his phone. \u201cAnd I think that this is a message here.\u201dAxelrod agreed, saying Democrats have been dictating to voters what they should believe.\u201cThe messages tend to be moralizing. It\u2019s like, \u2018We are going to tell you; we will tell you what is right.\u2019 And no connection to people who work with their hands, people who work with their backs, rural voters, so that\u2019s part of the problem,\u201d he said.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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