James Carville says the Democratic Party pays a ‘political price’ for the ‘noisy identity left’

A strategist has hit out at the ‘noisy identity left’ Democratic minority for being too interested in ‘somebody else’s pronouns’ rather than focusing on improving lives.

James Carville said the Democrats pay a ‘terrible political price’ for the actions of the left-wing minority, which he claimed only makes up around 15 per cent of the party. 

The political consultant, 76, insisted that they cannot let the ‘noisy’ fringe continue to define the entire Democratic party, saying that they need to be more effective in their communications with voters to neutralize the rhetoric.

‘We are letting a noisy wing of our party define the rest of us, and my point is we can’t do that,’ he told CNN‘s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday.

James Carville told CNN’s Chris Cuomo the Democrats pay a ‘political price’ for the actions of the ‘noisy identity’ left-wing minority, which he said should not define the entire party

‘Their all into language and identity and that’s all right, they’re not storming the Capitol, but they’re not winning elections.

‘And I think people sort of see this for what it is and people are way more interested in their lives and how to improve them than they are in somebody else’s pronouns.’

Carville attributed losing traction with black and Hispanic voters in the 2020 election to the party being identified with the Defund the Police movement and the ‘language police’, insisting that is not what President Biden stands for.

He claimed Biden, 78, doesn’t even know what ‘wokeness’ is and argued that the Democrats pay a larger political price for their left-wing minority than the Republicans do for their ‘loony insurrectionists’.

The longtime strategist explained: ‘Two thirds of their [Republican] party agree with these loony insurrectionists and this kind of stuff. 

‘Yet we pay such a terrible political price for a slightly more than fringe element of our party, where they don’t pay near the price of just totally goofy, not even on this planet, part of their party.’ 

Carville attributed losing traction with black and Hispanic voters in the 2020 election to the party being identified with the Defund the Police movement (pictured in September)

Carville attributed losing traction with black and Hispanic voters in the 2020 election to the party being identified with the Defund the Police movement (pictured in September)

He said President Biden (pictured), 78, doesn't know what 'wokeness' is and argued that the Democrats pay a large political price for their left-wing minority

He said President Biden (pictured), 78, doesn’t know what ‘wokeness’ is and argued that the Democrats pay a large political price for their left-wing minority

Carville claimed that movements to defund the police were put to rest by the victory of former New York city police officer Eric Adams in the Democratic mayoral primary.

Adams, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, made gun violence a center piece of his campaign. 

He is the general election favorite and will face Curtis Sliwa, the Republican founder of the Guardian Angels. Democrats outnumber Republicans 7-to-1 in New York City.

He officially won the Democratic mayoral nomination last week after defeating a crowded primary field.

On Sunday, he criticized Democrat lawmakers efforts to curb gun violence are ‘misplaced’ talks in Congress to overhaul the nation’s policing laws continue to stall.

‘I believe those priorities, they really were misplaced. And it’s almost insulting what we have witnessed over the last few years,’ Adams told CNN’s State of the Union, when asked about his party’s priorities. 

‘Many of our Presidents, they saw these numbers. They knew that the inner cities, particularly where Black, brown and poor people lived, they knew they were dealing with this real crisis. 

‘And it took this President to state that it is time for us to stop ignoring what is happening in the south sides of Chicago, in the Brownsvilles, in the Atlantas of our country.’

Crime rates have been rising throughout New York City, with the NYPD reporting last week that crime rates rose 3.1 percent over last year, with a 32.3 percent increase in grand larceny and a 16 percent increase in robberies.

Carville claimed that movements to defund the police were put to rest by the victory of former New York city police officer Eric Adams (pictured) in the Democratic mayoral primary

Carville claimed that movements to defund the police were put to rest by the victory of former New York city police officer Eric Adams (pictured) in the Democratic mayoral primary

Earlier this year, Carville said Democrats need to stop tweeting that about abolishing the police because 'almost no one wants to f*****g wants to do that'

Earlier this year, Carville said Democrats need to stop tweeting that about abolishing the police because ‘almost no one wants to f*****g wants to do that’

Earlier this year, Carville argued that ‘wokeness is a problem’ that could cost Democrats in future elections. 

Carville said there’s too much ‘faculty lounge’ politics among the Democratic party – for example using phrases like ‘Latinx’ for Latino or ‘communities of color’ for black people.

‘You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like ‘Latinx’ that no one else uses,’ he told VOX.com.

‘While there’s nothing wrong with phrases like that, he said, ‘this ‘too cool for school’ sh*t doesn’t work, and we have to stop it.’

For that to happen, Carville said Democrats need to incorporate more rural white voters, which they won’t do unless they start talking like ‘ordinary people’ and stop tweeting about abolishing the police because ‘almost no one wants to f*****g wants to do that’.

He said the strategy for Democrats is for President Joe Biden’s administration to crack down on party leaders using ‘jargon’ phrases.

That doesn’t mean the party can’t talk about race, he added.  

‘We should talk about racial injustice. What I’m saying is, we need to do it without using jargon-y language that’s unrecognizable to most people – including most black people, by the way – because it signals that you’re trying to talk around them.’