Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville condemned far-left Democrats on Thursday, warning that they value Soviet dictators more than American civil rights leaders.
During his “Politics War Room” podcast, Carville paraphrased a quote from an unnamed Democratic politician who had suggested that even Black American leaders are part of American imperialism. Carville responded with sarcasm, highlighting what he described as the absurdity that past civil rights leaders like John Lewis or Martin Luther King Jr. were puppets of such a system.
“These people are paternalistic, and it’s a bunch of overeducated little White turds who think they know more than other people know, and they know what’s wrong,” Carville said of liberal politicians who would voice such an opinion.
Carville has spent years warning the Democratic Party to distance itself from far-left culture-war politics. In recent months, with the rise of democratic socialists, however, Carville has gone so far as to suggest the party should have a schism to keep radicals from taking power.
On Thursday, he also recalled other socialist politicians taking far-left positions ranging from calls to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speaking out against interracial dating.
“Let me tell you something,” Carville began, offering a warning to Black voters and to other more centrist liberals like himself, “They think they know more than you do. They think their history is more glorious than [yours] was. They think that Lenin was a more glorious human being than Martin Luther King or Frederick Douglass. That’s what they really think.”
“And if you don’t know that, you don’t know your history. And you should view these people with extreme, extreme skepticism, because they think they know what’s better for you than you know what’s better for you,” he warned. “And they think they know your history better than you. You know their history. This a–hole don’t know what he’s talking about.”
“Someday James is going to tell us what he really thinks,” his co-host Al Hunt joked.
“You can see this coming,” Carville continued, warning, “It’s always been … they’ve got to be part of the movement. The only movement they got is a f—ing bowel movement.”
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Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) revealed a radical and controversial policy platform that sparked widespread backlash. Among the proposals were calls for an “immediate end to all deportations,” free migration between countries without restrictive immigration controls, and “extending full voting rights to people with criminal convictions and noncitizens.”
In addition, the group called for the U.S. Senate to be abolished.
The latest Fox News Poll released Wednesday found that support for socialism is growing in the Democratic Party and has surpassed support for capitalism. By an 11-point margin, more Democrats have a favorable opinion of socialism (52%) than capitalism (41%), while by a 50-point margin, more Republicans have a positive view of capitalism (61%) than socialism (11%).
Fox News’ Peter Pinedo and Dana Blanton contributed to this report.
