Mary Trump - The Circular Firing Squad
Yes, it was an extremely difficult election season for Democrats—from corporate media’s attacks on President Biden to the debate in June; then the uncertainty surrounding Biden’s fate at the top of the ticket and his withdrawal from the race; and, obviously, the results last week—especially in the wake of what was a quite exemplary campaign run by Vice President Harris.
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For a significant sub-set of Democratic operatives and pundits, the post-mortems have focused almost exclusively on what Democrats have done wrong, while entirely failing to take into account global trends, entrenched beliefs among American voters, and decades’ worth of right-wing disinformation. It’s as if said operatives and pundits were looking at this catastrophe through a purely Republican lens.
Among the worst offenders is James Carville, who worked on Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign more than three decades ago. Carville told CNN’s Christian Amanpour that “the country wanted change [and] the Vice President decided not to provide it.” It went downhill from there as Carville continued:
I’ll give Harris credit she didn’t use any ion the woke language but this is like but this is like trying to wash clothes that’s got smoke all over them—you can’t get the stench out. . . . You could ask Senator Manchin, Senator Casey, Senator Brown Senator Tester if they don’t think that defund the police had an adverse effect on attitudes towards the Democratic Party. My god, it was so stupid nobody wanted to bring it up three years later. But the residue of it just stuck with us. . . . It’s going to take more than one cycle to get this stench off of the Democratic Party, and it’s a stench of the highest order, let me tell you.
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Time for some new material James. It's no longer the 90s.