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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville and his colleagues spoke Thursday of the danger of Democrats falling into the same far-left rhetoric that dogged them in the last election.
Throughout the 2024 election and beyond, Carville has been telling liberals and Democrats to move away from divisive politics and radical communications, warning that they are alienating voters and not effective policy.
He and his colleague, Al Hunt, singled out Texas congressional candidate Bobby Pulido throughout his speech during their podcast.
Pulido has been widely quoted as explaining to fellow Democrats why Latino aspirational voters have shifted to the right, saying, “People down here don’t see themselves as poor — they see themselves as broken. When you’re broken, you say, ‘Tomorrow I’ll do it.’ Democracies treat people as poor, not as broken. “
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James Carville has repeatedly warned that Democrats need to break away from far-left identity politics and focus on what works politically. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Politicon)
Carville said he liked this understanding, but Hunt praised Pulido’s response that ICE must be abolished.
“He basically said, ‘No, we have to reform ICE,'” Hunt said. “I think that the question that ends ICE is ‘police protection’ in 2026. And the Democrats going into that gave the Republicans an opening. And boy, he didn’t. He answered that well.”
Later in the show, both praised retired Democratic politician Barney Frank, who recently entered a hospice and began calling out the far left for “adopting an agenda that goes beyond what is politically acceptable.”
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James Carville has always praised Democrats, young and old, who take a direct approach to politics. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times)
“I want to tip my hat to one of my favorite people in my life in American politics,” said Carville, summarizing that the politician’s advice to Democrats is “Keep the goal in mind, you’re trying to help people. You don’t overdo it. You do the things you need to do.”
Carville went on to compare this “smart man” to “the idiots who flourish in the Working Families Party. Look at these dopes.”
“There’s not a single person you associate with who lives within 15 kilometers of saltwater,” he said, appearing to lean into conflicting views on far-left coastal development.
He went on to argue that Frank, even at 87 years old and perhaps nearing the end of his life, “represents the future and success of the Democratic Party.”
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Rep. Lateefah Simon is one of the most prominent leaders associated with the Working Families Party, and she is presenting their response to President Donald Trump’s 2025 State of the Union Address. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn)
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