Carville blames 'stupid wokeness' for Democratic losses. (The Hill)

What happened in the 2021 off-year state elections in the Commonwealth of Virginia?

• Virginia was supposedly no longer a "swing state."

So what happened?

• Republican arachnid apparatchiks were all- in, with full fledged fraudulent falsehoods, e.g., manufacturing outrage on the "Critical Race Theory" non-issue, another manufactured contretemps -- "Swiftboating for Schoolmarms," a "Tempest in a Thimble."
• Rebarbative reprobate Republican corporations, political consultants, bagmen and lobbyists have long preached recruiting gullible people who weren't college educated, thereby avoiding recruiting people with critical thinking skills, focusing their campaigns on Trumpery, flummery, dupery, bigotry and nincompoopery for dummies.

The late HARVEY LEROY "LEE" ATWATER, the late THOMAS HOWELL SLADE, JR., et al. told Republicans to recruit "Joe Lunch Bucket" and dumb down campaigns to appeal to naked prejudices.

Devious corporations like KOCH INDUSTRIES, and their corpulent owners, control vast sums of wealth, and spend it on elections to buy compliant public serpents.  Yes, serpents -- slithery ones like DONALD JOHN TRUMP.

• I also think that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe doomed his chances when he said the infamous twelve (12)words about not letting parents participate in education -- "“I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” McAuliffe was a good, smart and wealthy man, but dumb as a coal bucket on this occasion: 

From The Hill:

Carville blames 'stupid wokeness' for Democratic losses

BY JOSEPH CHOI - 11/03/21 09:18 PM EDT  2,153

 

Democratic political strategist James Carville blamed his party's recent losses and weak performance in state elections on "stupid wokeness" on Wednesday.

"PBS NewsHour" host Judy Woodruff asked Carville what went wrong for the Democratic Party in the Virginia gubernatorial race in which Republican Glenn Youngkin beat former Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

"What went wrong is just stupid wokeness. Don't just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Wash. I mean, this 'defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. I mean that — people see that," Carville said.

"It's just really — has a suppressive effect all across the country on Democrats. Some of these people need to go to a 'woke' detox center or something," he added. "They're expressing a language that people just don't use, and there's backlash and a frustration at that."

Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy narrowly eked out a reelection victory on Wednesday, another indication of Democrats' diminishing strength in state elections.

Carville said that suburbanites in Virginia and New Jersey "pulled away" from such "wokeness." He pointed out that Youngkin never ran any ads against President Biden and suggested that the Republican candidate had simply allowed Democrats to "pull the pin and watch the grenade go off."

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"We got to change this and not be about changing dictionaries and change laws," Carville said. "These faculty lounge people that sit around mulling about I don't know what. ... They're not working."

Carville has decried "wokeness" in the past, telling Vox's Sean Illing earlier this year that it was a "problem."

"Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it. It’s hard to talk to anybody today — and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out loud," said Carville.