Today’s quote comes to us from now (more or less) retired Bill Clinton political guru, James Carville.
Mr. Carville, who coined the expression “It’s the economy, stupid”, has a slight bit of a problem with the Democrat Party’s political strategy this year. I’ll let him tell you about it:
“The generational thievery that has occurred in this country is criminality of the first order. We keep wondering why these young people are not coming home to the Democrats. Why are Blacks not coming home to the Democrats? Because Democrat messaging is full of shit, that’s why. And talk about cost of living, and we’re going to help deal with this. Don’t talk about fucking Gaza and student loans. That is so out.
“Why are we forgiving student loans for people that go to Harvard? Which, according to Scott Galloway, quite accurately, is nothing but a hedge fund that has classrooms. Well, they got a $52 billion fucking surplus. Why are taxpayers going to bail these people out? Why don’t you come out with a proposal to tax every university with an endowment of over $5 billion and use that money to give their former students relief?”
“We all know where where we are. We all know the position we are in. We all know what the polls say. We all know how old President Biden is. Quit fucking arguing what’s in front of your face and start laying something out.”
Call me a minimalist, but I can’t help thinking that is the long-form way of saying “It’s the economy, stupid”.
In any event, I award James Carville Quote Of The Day honors for stating so plainly that bread and butter issues are still the most important ones. And despite his propensity for using indelicate language, being so correct in doing so.
(But you did leave something out, Jim. Uh….what about the border?)
