Democrat infighting continues. It may never stop.
And a leftist operative went off on his fellow party members.
James Carville has never been shy about speaking his mind, and on Monday night he delivered another classic performance on Jesse Watters Primetime.
The leftist operative took aim at the Democratic Socialist candidates who keep scoring victories in party primaries, writing them off without hesitation.
He labeled them “silly” and a “pack of fools.” That blunt assessment came as Watters pressed him on the direction of the Democratic Party and the rising influence of its furthest-left wing.
Watters said, “[D]o you think that you guys should run AOC? Another woman? You guys have not done well running women, James.”
“Well, first of all, I don’t know if I feel bad about the Democratic Party. We are ahead eight points in aggressive generic — Trump is at 32% in the polls. And so I don’t know about you — if I’m worried about the Democrats right now, I’m not. We’re going to win the House, and we are going to win the Senate,” Carville said in response.
The confidence was pure Carville. In his view, the map looks so favorable that internal squabbles barely register.
Watters kept pushing, asking directly, “You’re not worried about the communists taking over the party?”
Carville’s answer left no room for doubt: “No, no. They’re a bunch of silly people. Those people you had on there, those DSA people, they are a pack of fools. No one pays attention to them. They could do anything.”
He treated the Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow travelers as little more than background noise, a sideshow that serious Democrats can safely ignore.
Yet he made a careful exception for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
“Now, if you ask me about AOC, I do think she’s very talented. She’s certainly to the left of me. But you know what she’s doing, but I think good politicians do, she is growing into the job. She’s not the same person she was when she was elected in 2018.”
“And when people change a position from what I think is a more naive position to a more realistic position, I’m going to praise them. I’m a guy — I like converts in my church. I can’t get you to come in to it, but I will try somebody else.”
That line about converts may play well inside Democratic circles, but it does nothing to address the hard reality facing voters outside them.
Democratic Socialists have been winning real primaries and claiming real nominations. Calling them fools does not erase those results or the platform they run on.
