James Carville rips young snot-nosed progressive staffers for hurting Harris campaign with hissy fit over Joe Rogan: Huge fking error
Veteran Democratic Party strategist James Carville scorched young progressives in the Harris campaign, arguing that their role in scuttling her interview with Joe Rogan helped cost her the election.A campaign official said earlier this month Vice President Kamala Harris backed out of appearing on “The Joe Rogan Experience” because of “concerns at how the interview would be perceived within the Democratic Party” and “backlash with some of our progressive staff that didn’t want her to be on it.”Now, as numerous political commentators continue to debate how the Rogan snub hurt Harris, Carville blasted the influence of the staffers.“The vice president was thinking about going on Joe Rogan’s show and a lot of the younger, progressive staffers pitched a hissy fit,” Carville said Tuesday on Politicon.“Supposedly the campaign said that wasn’t a determining factor, but they did.” The experienced campaign operative went on to explain how to deal with young staffers who try to assert their own opinions.“When you put a campaign together and you hire young people to do work, let me tell you exactly what you tell these people.
What I would tell them: ‘Not only am I not interested in your f—ing opinion, I’m not even gonna call you by your name.You’re 23 years old, I don’t really give a s— what you think,’” he said.“And let me tell you another huge error, a huge f—ing error that was made is when people said, ‘Campaigns need to reflect progressive values.’ No, they don’t.
No, they don’t.Campaigns are authoritarian by their nature,” Carville said. “If I were running a 2028 campaign and I had some little snot-nosed 23-year-old saying, ‘I’m going to resign if you do this,’ not only would I fire that motherf—er on the spot, I would find out who hired them and fire that person on the spot!” he added.
“I’m really not interested in your uninformed, stupid, jacka– opinion as to whether to go on Joe Rogan o...