James Carville and Sen. Elissa Slotkin had harsh words for their own party. In a Saturday video, they criticized Democrats for treating all minorities as if they were the same.
Carville, on his Politics War Room podcast, didn’t hold back. He called the terms “communities of color” and “people of color” outright “racist.” Slotkin agreed, saying it’s wrong to assume people can be defined solely by race.
“I just want to make a disappointed observation,” Carville said. “I think these people, the most racist thing that I hear is when people say ‘communities of color’ or ‘people of color’ because that assumes that everybody that is not white is the same, which is that, like, it’s horribly, a horribly—I think it’s racist to say, ‘Well, Filipinos are the same as Hondurans, are the same as Nigerians, are the same as Indonesians’ is absurd.”
He didn’t stop there. “And they just keep using this language and I think they’re too naive to know how stupid it is. That’s my own view.”
Slotkin chimed in with a similar take. “Yeah, I mean, I think, again, the data will show you that it’s just not accurate, right? I mean, you look at, where, you know, some of our Muslim American communities voted, where some of our South Asian American families voted. I mean, it just, it doesn’t work, at least in a state like Michigan.”
She pointed out that political preferences don’t fit a neat box. “It’s like a giant mixing bowl on political preferences, and if you, you know, think that you understand a community because of their country of origin, you’re just, you haven’t run in a swing state. I’ll tell you that.”
The numbers prove the point. In Michigan, Kamala Harris only beat Trump by 29% in Wayne County, home to Detroit. In 2020, Biden won it by 38%. Meanwhile, Jill Stein grabbed 18% of the vote in Dearborn, a majority Middle Eastern city where Trump came out ahead in November.
Trump also made major gains with Hispanic and black men. The shift showed clear cracks in traditional voting patterns.
Carville didn’t stop at race issues. On his Feb. 6 podcast, he slammed Democrats for pushing agendas that don’t connect with everyday Americans. One example? The Democratic National Committee’s gender rules.
During its Winter Meeting, the DNC struggled to explain them. The rules required “one male, one female, and one person of any gender” for vice chair elections. Carville mocked the whole thing.
“Did I just read this? Of course I did. And do you believe this? Of course you do,” he said. “Because that’s the level of jackassery that—now, does any Democratic candidate? No. I don’t even know if [newly elected DNC Chair] Ken Martin himself actually [believes it]. But they do it.”
He wasn’t done. “And it’s like there’s a plant somewhere in ‘progressive’ America that just sees how many jackass stupid things that they can embrace. It’s stunningly stupid.”