By Quin Hillyer, Deputy Commentary Editor. Media: Washingtonexaminer
From a purely partisan standpoint, Republicans are lucky that Democratic power brokers aren’t heeding famed consultant James Carville when he blasts the Democratic Party’s leftward lurch. The nation’s civic health, though, would improve if they did listen to him.
For several years now, Carville, who gained his greatest fame with the more pragmatic Democratic President Bill Clinton, has been sounding the alarm on the prominence within his party of the radically “woke” contingent of leaders. He was at it again on Sept. 24 on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast.
“I find the Left to be just annoying,” Carville told Maher. “The western far Left is habitually the most stupid, naive people you can imagine. They come up with these really goofy constructs and it’s all about feeling good about yourself.”
Maher agreed, and as the conversation continued, Carville added this: “What happened is, overeducated, coastal white people, got ahold of the word [woke], and [like] they do with everything else, they completely f***ed it up and pissed everybody in the country off,” he said bluntly. “If we could just get the humanities faculty at Amherst [College] to shut the f*** up, we’d be a lot better off.”
Carville is of course correct. When leftists who run key institutions force onto people various policies that rely on the notions that men can get pregnant, that parents should be treated as their children’s enemies, that young children should be taught that “whiteness” is evil, and that all gasoline-powered cars should be forced off the roads within a decade or so, the general public sees their agenda as dangerous lunacy.
On Maher’s show, Carville also reiterated his earlier warnings about the electoral weakness of President Joe Biden, agreeing that a younger, non-woke Democrat could “easily” defeat Biden. He said in April that Biden especially has not inspired younger black voters and that “abysmally low” black voter turnout could doom Democrats in 2024.
Republicans may celebrate all the Democratic stupidity on these fronts because, of course, a party pushing such nonsense is a party that is easier to defeat.
That attitude, however, is shortsighted and borderline unpatriotic. Barring a political earthquake of epochal proportions, one of the two major parties is going to win the presidency in 2024. For some 30 years, the parties have been roughly evenly matched. Any news development that causes any slight, last-minute shift in voter attitudes could well give the election to a doddering Democrat over, for instance, an increasingly unhinged-sounding former Republican president.
Everybody, of either party, should wish that the other party put forth the best — the most competent, most honest, non-radical — candidate it can find. That way, then, no matter which party wins, the nation’s president and leader of the free world is less likely to do disastrous harm and more likely to blossom into a wise and unifying leader.
Carville is wise to want his own party to jettison “stupid” radicals and “goofy constructs” on issues. And not just because it will make it easier for Democrats to win elections. More important: because if, against conservative wishes, the Democrats do win, the country will be in better hands that way than if hard-left wokesters gain even more power to impose their crazy agenda by force of the government’s guns.
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