James Carville suggests Dems have ‘amicable split’ from progressives over ‘pronoun politics’
nypost.com
As progressives tend to be very vocal about LGBTQ issues, Carville proposed that there needs to be a “schism” within the Democratic Party.

“I don’t think we can’t work together on pronoun politics. This election did not teach you how damaging that is. I don’t think there’s anything that I can tell you,” Carville said on the Politics War Room podcast on Tuesday…Carville’s comments came after he said last week that the Democratic Party needed to distance themselves from identity politics because their first priority should be to win elections.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    No, I’m trying to point out the stark reality to people who keep saying the DNC needs to give us better candidates and ignore donors. I’m saying we need to wake up and realize that we have to give ourselves better candidates because the donors are not going to. They didn’t give us AOC. She decided she was going to run against the establishment incumbent and the people came out to vote for her. That’s what we need, everywhere.

    Yeah, democrats learned from AOC, which is how you got the party bending over backward to “protect the incumbent” when coathanger cuellar had a progressive challenger, but doing fucking nothing to protect incumbents Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman when they got primaried. The party plays favorites.

    That’s how elections work.

    When we have primaries. When the party wants to keep the genocide going, they don’t give us a choice. Just “you’re voting like we order you because we’re second worst”.

    The new head of the DNC used to chair a progressive minor party in Minnesota, before he ran for and was elected to the chair of the Minnesota Democratic Party. He wasn’t appointed to those positions as some good-will to the voters by the DNC. He was elected to those positions.

    I wonder what he had to promise. I don’t trust the party until it shows it’s trustworthy again. With actions. Overt actions, not “they’re totally not useless corporate shit behind the scenes.”