 Nick and mole rat human hybrid James Carville was interviewed by Vox, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me I don't know why so many news organizations are fascinated with what James Carville has to say about American politics but for whatever reason Vox decided to interview him and he was asked about Joe Manchin and of course James Carville defended Joe Manchin like the hack that he is Because James Carville views politics as a team sport So if somebody has a D in front of their name if they're a Democrat by definition, they're good because Democrat good Republican bad So here's what he had to say so Jackson Rickman of media I had explains in a Q&A writer Sean illing of Vox by the way asked Carville if he has any substantive criticisms of Manchin and thoughts about his opposition to something like expanding the child tax credit or his position on The filibuster Carville responded saying look the child tax credit is extraordinary. We've reduced child poverty in this country by 40% It's unbelievable and I just keep trying and trying to win elections because this thing is enormously successful But I'll just keep saying it if we don't have senator Manchin We're going to have somebody really really really extreme in his seat. Look, I'm a liberal Democrat always have been but some of these people bitching About Manchin can't see political reality straight 6% of adults in this country identify as progressive only 11 or 12% of Democrats identify as Progressive so let's just meet in the middle and say something like 7 or 8% of the country agrees with the progressive left This ain't a goddamn debate anymore Someone like Manchin is closer to the mainstream than a lot of these people think and pretending like he isn't won't help the cause Okay, lots to talk about here first and foremost if Joe Manchin isn't in that seat and he was replaced by a Republican Functionally, what difference would that make? I want James Carville to answer this question What difference would that make because if Joe Manchin is literally indistinguishable in every conceivable way Then a standard Republican What difference does his presence there make if he's gonna block voting rights? If you won't even mildly carve out the filibuster to do voting rights if he's blocking the Democratic Party's milk toast incrementalist agenda What difference does it make? It doesn't make a difference But again James Carville is playing on a team So it's a win for him as long as his team has more players on the field as long as they're in control of government To him everything is copacetic if that's the case what matters is keeping Democrats there So even if you have someone like Joe Manchin or Chris in cinema who are essentially Republicans that's a win for him because as long as his team is there. That's good. Everything is good Now he kind of contradicts himself because he talks about the child tax credit and how good it is as a policy And it's I think he implied it's a good way to help Democrats win elections But ask yourself why is that a good way to help Democrats win elections James Carville? Could it possibly be that Americans don't actually know what they're talking about with regard to political labels? Perhaps they view themselves as more conservative than they are but when you pull them based on policies They're a lot more progressive a majority of them support legalizing cannabis a Plurality supports Medicare for all sometimes majority supports Medicare for all they're a lot more progressive than they self identify as now I feel like everyone knows this at this point But people pretend as if this isn't actually a thing just so they can make their hacky political point So let's actually look at where the mainstream is in this country because he says that more people are or Manchin is closer To the mainstream then people give him credit for okay Well, let's look at build back better a bill that Manchin blocked most Americans overwhelmingly supported long-term care negotiating prescription drug prices universal pre-k Medicare expansion free community college creating a civilian climate core a Pathway to citizenship for immigrants 50% strongly or somewhat supported extending the child tax credit That's what Americans support but yet Manchin blocked it and he's more mainstream according to James Carville Why well because most people don't self identify as progressives Okay But they agree on the policies So should we really take voters at face value if they have no idea what these political labels even mean I mean we have a Republican Party who calls everything communist They literally think that Joe Biden is a communist and those that don't think that he's a communist They still call him a communist because that's what they do So when political labels have been completely bastardized to the extent that nobody knows what they mean I mean they use communism and fascism interchangeably Do we really want to take what people label themselves as at face value and just assume that Manchin is more mainstream? Because that's not the case what matters are the Policies and see that's the thing that hacks in the Democratic Party establishment. Don't really realize or care about I Don't care about the Democratic Party I don't care about the Republican Party what I care about our policy outcomes And so if the current Democratic Party who are in Congress are not yielding the policy outcomes that are objectively good for Democracy like voting rights then they're bad It doesn't matter that someone might be more extreme than Joe Manchin if the result will be the same in the end Joe Manchin is by no means the mainstream and by saying that he is you legitimize him Which is weird because James Carville should have no legitimacy. I mean when Bernie Sanders won Nevada in 2020 he was screeching at the top of his lungs about how this was a win for Vladimir Putin I mean imagine being that deranged and still having anyone to ask for your opinion on something Who gives a shit what James Carville has to say about politics? I can fart and that fart would have more substance than James Carville and I mean that Ironically my asshole literally sounds more intelligent than James Carville when it comes to politics because James Carville doesn't know what the fuck He's talking about. He's just a cheerleader for the Democratic Party and so long as they're at least center right He's happy if they get too progressive then his rich ass is gonna throw a fit because he wants his tax cuts He doesn't want the Democratic Party to undo the damage that Republicans cause because he's sent to write himself This is a fucking Clinton era dipshit ghoul So I don't know what to say I don't even know why I'm talking about James Carville because you know I feel like this is someone who should just be ignored but since the news Organizations in mainstream in America since mainstream media. They're so fascinated with him We actually do have to entertain his ideas, which is frustrating But of course I'm gonna try to do my part in pushing back because James Carville is a fucking moron and nobody should take This idiot seriously nobody not a single person not even his own wife should take him seriously She should laugh at him whenever he opens his mouth because he's a fucking fool