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Quatrarius  ·  1308 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: James Carville: “Wokeness is a problem and we all know it”

the best way to win elections as somebody left of center is to adopt all the talking points of people right of center while endlessly beating down on young people, activists, and anybody with a shred of passion

wokeness is the modern word for PC culture and it bothers me greatly that any GenXer could look at a statement like this and not immediately think "this is culture war posturing"





mk  ·  1308 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don’t think Carville is posturing, or really feels a needs to. I believe his intention is to win elections in a country that voted for Donald Trump.

Carville is the “it’s the economy, stupid” guy. To be honest, it might be enough he take the advice of his younger self. I think Trump ultimately won by harnessing feelings of economic uncertainty. You can communicate that in different ways. Biden does it well.