US EditionCarville urges Democrats to run on ‘pure economic rage’
James Carville calls for a populist economic agenda centered on voter anger over inequality and rising costs, citing 74% support for a $20 minimum wage in 2023 polls.
- Monday, James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist, wrote in The New York Times urging Democrats to run on the `most populist economic platform since the Great Depression` to address economic pain, he argues.
- Amid rising household costs, Carville says 'the only thing that will persevere is economic pain' as young people struggle with homes and student debt.
- Carville recommended proposing a $20 minimum wage, free public college, rural broadband as a public utility, and child care as a public good, citing broad support.
- Just as in 2018 and 2022, James Carville predicted Democrats can again mobilize urban and suburban voters and called it 'the greatest gift you can have in American politics: a second chance.'
- Polling shows nearly 70% of Americans view Democrats as out of touch, and Carville warns the era of performative woke politics has hurt the party with rural and male voters.
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Carville Urges Democrats to Run on ‘Pure Economic Rage’ in 2026
Democratic strategist James Carville is urging his party to base its 2026 midterm message on what he calls “pure economic rage,” arguing that rising costs, not the recent government shutdown, will drive voters next year. “We are not even two weeks from the government shutdown, and the public conversation on the matter has fled the building,” Carville wrote in a guest essay published Monday in The New York Times. “This shows, no matter what you b…
'The people are revolting!' James Carville reveals plan for Dems to exploit 'pure rage'
A Democratic strategist is laying out a plan for Democrats to weaponize voter frustrations in the 2026 midterm elections — starting with rage. James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist, wrote Monday in a New York Times opinion essay that it's now the time for Democrats to adopt the "most popu...
James Carville demands Democrats ditch 'performative woke politics,' embrace economic 'rage'
Democratic strategist James Carville demanded Democrats start embracing a platform of "economic rage" in a New York Times guest essay published Monday, urging the party to leave "performative woke politics" in the past."It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss," Carville wrote, citing the recent Democrati…
'Pure economic rage': DC insider plots path out of the MAGA 'abyss' in scathing editorial
In his latest opinion piece in The New York Times, Democratic party strategist James Carville says the only thing that will persevere until next year's midterm elections is economic pain, which is the reason the Democrats swept November's elections.Democrats "Zohran Mamdani, Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill — even down-ballot Georgia Democrats — all won with soaring margins because the people are p-----," Carville writes.This anger, he says, i…
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