Carville: Woke Snowflake Liberals Have Destroyed Democracy

During a recent interview with Bill Maher, Democratic strategist James Carville tried to blame the “Woke Progressives” for the failures of the Democratic Party. Maybe he’s right, but they aren’t the only group that’s causing trouble from within the Democratic machine. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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During a recent interview with Bill Maher, Democratic strategist, James Carville tried to blame the woke progressives for the failures of the Democratic Party. Maybe he's right, but they aren't the only group that's causing trouble within the Democratic machine. Wow. You know, this interview was amazing. Matter of fact, this is the quote, I find the left to be annoying, Carville said. In the western, in the western far left is habitually the most stupid, these are his words, the most stupid, naive people you could imagine. And they come up with these really goofy constructs. And it's all about feeling good about yourself. He says, these people basically are overeducated, snowflake, dopes. That's what he's saying. And he's saying it's killing the Democratic party because he says it's only about 10%, 10 or 11% of the party that does that. This is a guy that's been Democrat since he could walk and he's having to say this. What's your take?

Um, look, I don't agree with him on the whole woke thing is killing the left. I think the woke thing is overblown, definitely by the right. And I think it's overblown by people like Carville and definitely Bill Maher because Bill Maher has come out against these people. And I think it's because they don't watch his show. So he's mad that he's not getting those ratings. But I think one of the bigger problems with the Democratic party today is people like Carville himself, these old holdovers that still think that, look, I'm smarter than everybody else. I know what's going on. This guy won Bill Clinton two elections because Ross Perot came in and diluted the Republican vote. He's not the brilliant mastermind he wants people to think he is.

Would you call him a blue Democrat? I mean, just a blue dog Democrat, basically.

He's definitely a vote blue no matter who type guy.

Yeah. Well, I mean, he goes on to say, Bill Maher picks up and he says, look, I'm so worried about the woke that liberals are bringing back communism. That's how far Maher goes. Now, you may say he's doing this because he's mad. There's never been a better voice for Democrats than Bill Maher and Carville. So I don't think in my, as I look at this, I don't think you can just look at it and say, this is aberrational. I don't think you can say, this is just two guys off. I think they're seeing something that we see, I mean, we talk about this from time to time, but they're just really vocal about it. And after this, there's more than this. They're like in a jihad and they're saying that the 10 or 11% of the Democrats that describe their self as, they call 'em snowflake, snowflake woke, woke Democrats, that they're killing the party. And that in turn, they're killing democracy. What's your take?

I definitely do not think they're killing democracy. I think a lot of it has to do with kind of over-exaggerating to a degree the identity politics. That's what they're trying to say, I think.

Kinda what we talked about last week.

Yeah. I think you and I do a better job of talking about that than these guys did. I think they totally went off the deep end because, hey, it's a part of your party you don't like. And look, you don't have to like everybody, you wanna badmouth them, you have the right to do that. But what really, what it comes down to is kind of like, when we talked about the Gavin Newsom story. Gavin Newsom says, I have to appoint a black woman. And then even Barbara Lee is like, that is like super offensive. Why?

That is the stupidest thing. Every time you.

But that's what, then they say, oh, well that's because that's woke. And then it goes into this whole thing. But it's identity.