Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville on Monday called on Democrats to focus on addressing “economic pain” as Americans show their “anger” toward Republicans ahead of next year’s midterms.
Carville — in an op-ed for The New York Times — argued that his party’s big election race wins in New York, New Jersey and Virginia this month show that “people are pissed” about the cost of living, adding that Americans are experiencing “the greatest economic inequality” since the 1920s.
“President Trump has done nothing to curb the cost of what it requires to take even a breath in America today, the centerpiece promise of his 2024 campaign,” he wrote.
“The people are revolting, and they have been for some time. This offers Democrats the greatest gift you can have in American politics: a second chance.”
Trump has cooked up a lying spree in recent weeks with false claims about prices being “way down” as a result of his administration.
A new CBS News/YouGov survey found that 65% of respondents indicated that Trump’s policies were making grocery prices go up.
Among those who judge the president most on the economy, 77% of those said the president was not spending enough time on the issue, per the survey.
Carville — a lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign — noted that he’s now 81 years old and seen as someone who carries “the torch from a so-called centrist political era.”
“Yet it is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression,” he wrote.
“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.”