Clinton Adviser Blames ‘Stupid Wokeness’ for Democratic Losses on Tuesday

(Left) Democratic gubernatorial campaigner erstwhile Gov. Terry McAuliffe, speaks to supporters during a rally successful Richmond, Va., connected Nov. 1, 2021. (Steve Helber/AP Photo); (Right) Republican gubernatorial campaigner Glenn Youngkin gestures arsenic helium speaks to supporters during a rally successful Chesterfield, Va., connected Nov. 1, 2021. (Steve Helber/AP Photo)

Longtime Democratic Party strategist James Carville sharply criticized left-wing members of his enactment and “wokeness” for important losses connected Tuesday’s Election Day.

Pointing to Republican wins successful Virginia, a adjacent gubernatorial contention successful New Jersey, and important GOP wins successful Long Island, Carville lamented the absorption his enactment has taken implicit the past respective years. Most notably, Republican Glenn Youngkin was capable to buoy himself against Democrat Terry McAuliffe to instrumentality the governor’s contention by capitalizing connected parents’ concerns that the quasi-Marxist captious contention theory-derived program was being taught successful nationalist schools.

“What went incorrect is conscionable anserine wokeness. Don’t conscionable look astatine Virginia and New Jersey. Look astatine Long Island, look astatine Buffalo, look astatine Minneapolis, adjacent look astatine Seattle, Wash[ington]. I mean, this ‘defund the police’ lunacy, this instrumentality Abraham Lincoln’s sanction disconnected of schools. I mean that—people spot that,” Carville, a erstwhile Clinton medication adviser, told PBS connected Wednesday.

In Seattle, Republican-aligned Ann Davison was elected to go the adjacent metropolis attorney, defeating “defund the police” protagonist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy. Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy narrowly appeared to triumph the governor’s spot again connected Wednesday implicit little-known Republican authorities lawmaker Jack Ciattarelli, although Ciattarelli’s run has signaled that it would contention the results.

Far-left rhetoric, Carville said, “has a suppressive effect each crossed the state connected Democrats. Some of these radical request to spell to a ‘woke’ detox halfway oregon something. … They’re expressing a connection that radical conscionable don’t use, and there’s backlash and a vexation astatine that.”

Suburban residents successful some Virginia and New Jersey “pulled away” from “wokeness,” helium proclaimed, saying the Democrats mortally wounded themselves with self-inflicted losses. Youngkin ne'er ran immoderate advertisements against President Joe Biden and simply allowed Democrats similar McAuliffe to “pull the pin and ticker the grenade spell off,” Carville explained.

“We got to alteration this and not beryllium astir changing dictionaries and alteration laws,” helium added. “These module lounge radical that beryllium astir mulling astir I don’t cognize what. … They’re not working,” Carville said, referring to the inclination among galore U.S. academics to endorse far-left viewpoints and adjacent Marxist ideology.

Youngkin’s win, immoderate GOP lawmakers predicted, is apt a motion that Republicans would easy recapture the House of Representatives.

“It’ll beryllium much than 70 Democrats that volition beryllium competitive,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said of the 2022 midterms this week. “There’s galore that are going to suffer their races, based connected walking disconnected a cliff—from Nancy Pelosi pushing them.”