Look, If James Carville Says So…
Kevin McCullough
There's a particular kind of political admission that lands harder than anything the opposition could say about you. It's the admission that comes from your own side, delivered not as a concession but as weary, exasperated advice to stop fighting a war you've already lost. This week, Democratic strategist James Carville handed Republicans exactly that gift, and he did it without a hint of irony.
On the "Politics War Room" podcast, Carville told his own party, in language colorful enough that Fox News had to bleep it, to quit fighting voter ID requirements altogether. His reasoning wasn't moral. It wasn't even really about fraud. It was about math. "This s--- polls at 75%," Carville said. Three-quarters of the country—a supermajority any political operative would kill for on almost any issue—thinks requiring identification to vote is common sense. Carville's advice to fellow Democrats was blunt: stop making yourselves look like you don't want elections verified, "just quit fighting, go along with it, and move to the next thing."
Sit with that for a second. This is the same James Carville who has spent three decades as one of the sharpest Democratic minds in the country, the architect of "it's the economy, stupid," a man with no incentive whatsoever to hand Republicans a talking point. And his advice to his own party was to stop resisting voter ID because the public already sees through the resistance.
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