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16 hours ago
- Politics
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Carville says Dems 'betrayed' working-class voters by not including them in 'too-cool-for-school' coalition
Veteran Democratic Party strategist James Carville warned on Thursday that Democrats need to acknowledge how they took part in the decades-long betrayal of White, working-class voters. Since the Democratic Party's historic loss in November, many have been trying to chart a path forward to reclaiming their coalition. While some have doubled-down on controversial far-left identity politics, some have worked to reclaim working-class men they alienated in recent years, particularly White men. On the Politics War Room podcast, hosts Carville and Al Hunt addressed a comment from a listener, who suggested that rather than being reconciliation, MAGA supporters deserve to be "beaten badly at the voting booth and then told just to suck it up." "Oh God, who doesn't have that instinct?" Carville responded, but nonetheless warned that politics comes down to winning elections, and that means persuading voters. "It is not the most satisfying way, but what in the end are we trying to do? We're trying to do one thing, win elections." He proceeded to warn against the "temptation that says 'I can't believe how godd--n stupid you were." While he said he has no temptation for the "corporate a—wipes" who voted for Trump to become richer, the strategist nicknamed the Ragin' Cajun expressed some sympathy for working-class Whites he says have been betrayed by both parties. "I have an iota of sympathy for somebody whose life hadn't turned out right," he said. "The brilliant thing about MAGA is it gives you an explanation other than yourself of why your life didn't turn out the way you wanted it, and we should say to these people 'We kind of understand what you were trying to say but you were betrayed.'" "Let's also face it, Democrats acted like these people didn't exist alright? They just did, and don't come back and say-We acted like working-class, particularly working-class non-college Whites were not part of our too-cool-for-school group," he continued. "There were some real high-end people that kind of bought in to that s---." He returned to the listener's question and reasserted his point that it's better to reconcile with working-class White voters, even if he understands being frustrated with them. "I can see it, but the best thing to do is not punch him in the mouth but to say, 'You know man I could hear where you're coming from you just got betrayed, and we betrayed you somewhat, and we now have learned our lesson,'" he said.
Fox News
05-06-2025
- Business
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Carville accuses Jewish donors of abandoning Democrats for GOP because they just want their ‘f-----g tax cut'
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said on Wednesday he doesn't believe it when wealthy Jewish donors tell him they're ditching the Democratic Party because of antisemitism among its members. He says they're doing it for a "f------ tax cut." During the latest episode of his "Politics War Room" podcast, the former Bill Clinton advisor said these donors' concerns that the Democratic Party has encouraged antisemitism on college campuses are an excuse so they can vote for President Donald Trump's tax cuts. "No, you just want your f------ tax cut," he declared. The topic came up with co-host Al Hunt ripping Trump for billing himself an ally for Jewish people. "Trump fighting antisemitism is a joke," he said, referencing a recent New York Times article accusing the president of fanning the "flames" of antisemitism in America. Carville replied by calling Trump a "complete fraud," but added that the group really exposed by the article are the wealthy Jewish people who stopped giving to the Democratic Party and supported Trump in 2024. "I tell you who this exposes in a more profound way. And I hear this all the time… a lot of really wealthy Jewish fundraisers – And they say, 'Look James, I'm a Democrat, but I can't be a part of the party because of what happened at Columbia.'" "What the f--- did the Democrats have to do with what happened in Columbia?" Carville demanded. Columbia University, like other prominent U.S. universities, has been a hotbed of anti-Israel demonstrations since Hamas' terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. This wave of anti-Israel sentiment, and perceived indifference or support by some Democrats, has caused certain Jewish figures to stop giving to the party and to begin donating to Trump's campaign. Wealthy tech expert Jacob Helberg donated over $1 million to Trump's 2024 campaign, despite being a Democratic donor in the previous presidential election. Helberg, who serves as a senior policy advisor to Palantir CEO Alex Karp, gave his reason for the switch, stating, "It became very clear that an organizing principle on the left increasingly became based on a divvying up of the world between oppressors and oppressed. It's just an organizing principle that I fundamentally disagree with." He added that he feels "like a lot of the thin crust of civilization that separates today's world from the dark world of yesterday is going to unravel in some really scary ways," he said. "You're seeing that with these incredibly dark, antisemitic protests on university campuses, in the streets of Dearborn, Mich., and these slogans that are somehow gaining popular attraction." During the podcast, Carville attacked this reason, saying that Jewish donors like Helberg and Bill Ackman – who Hunt called out by name – are donating to the GOP just to help their bottom lines. "Most Jewish people see right through [Trump], but the ones that don't see through it, they just don't – at the end of the day, they just want their f------ tax cut. And you can see it every day," he said.
