‘We're Up Against a Wall’: James Carville's Advice for Biden
The 79-year-old Ragin’ Cajun has no time for progressive virtue signaling: ‘Without power, what difference does it make?’
Democrats have a problem, says James Carville, and it’s not Joe Biden. It’s not even Donald Trump and his MAGA hordes, not really. “Democrats of certain kinds, they really feel good about losing,” said the longtime political strategist on Sunday during a panel as part of The Ankler and Pure Non-Fiction’s latest Documentary Spotlight event. “Fuck losing.”
Carville has no time for progressive virtue signaling and demands for “100 percent purity” that only distract from the objective: winning. “If you want to feel good and smug about yourself, that's fine,” he said. “But without power, what difference does it make?”
Carville shared the stage with filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer (Where’s My Roy Cohn?, The Reagans), who’s been following the 79-year-old Ragin’ Cajun as he crisscrosses the country in an effort to get Biden re-elected.
“I was taught earlier in my career, your job is not to predict elections, it's to affect elections — and we got to try to win this thing,” Carville said. “I don't think it was the niftiest idea I ever heard” for Biden to run again, he added. “But here we are . . . And we’re up against a wall.”