The Democrats have an apocalyptic hopium problem. Nobody should be listening to James Carville for any reason. Who the hell is hiring this guy to go to conferences to give dubious instructions to my elected representatives?
Politico – House Democrats try to get their act together following joint session fiasco – Leaders are looking for a reset as they try to close gaping divides over the party’s messaging and strategy. By Nicholas Wu and Mia McCarthy 03/12/2025 04:45 AM EDT House Democrats are headed into their annual policy retreat Wednesday looking for a reset as they try to close gaping divides over the party’s messaging and strategy — and regroup ahead of the 2026 midterms, where they have to flip only a handful of seats to regain the majority. (…) They include three Democratic governors from states won by Trump in 2024 — Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania — who are set to share their insights in a Thursday night conversation with Jeffries. Presidential pundits including James Carville, Bill Clinton’s strategy maven, and Dan Pfeiffer, Barack Obama’s comms brain, will advise members about getting their messaging back on track. (emphasis added)
This is the guy who said Dem politicians – our representatives – should play dead and do nothing.
Just have to wonder about the people who want his advice so badly, and the people who think Democrats should listen to that. Seems a little suspicious.
The Seagulls Descend — Living in a shadow future vs. engaging with the present, and creating unmistakable, effective differentiators — both for ourselves and for our nation’s low-information voters. A.R. Moxon Jul 27, 2024 So often it feels as if we’re accepting the current media framework of speculation and prediction and punditry, not so much dealing with what is or contending for what should be but living in a bleak and unbroken shadow future, where everything is already decided, which frees us from the moral imperative to have to do anything. It’s just as freeing in a way to believe everything is doomed as it is to believe that everything will be fine; either way you don’t have to do much thinking or work, or even take the next step that will allow us to take the next step, however easy or hard or palatable or unpalatable that next step might be. So we behave as if we are political operatives, predictive wizards, demonstrating not our commitment to a better vision of the future by contending with reality here in the present and working for best outcomes, but rather our ability to know what will happen before it happens, so that when it happens we can say see? and if we are wrong, we just run on to the next topic, chasing seagulls.