Democrats continue to demonstrate that they learned absolutely nothing from their 2024 election losses, and longtime strategist James Carville is calling them out on it.
This time, Carville took issue with the way the Democratic National Committee opened its summer meeting in Minneapolis last week, making a “land acknowledgement” at the beginning and bringing up self-described "Indigenous queer woman” Lindy Sowmick, treasurer of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, to accuse the U.S. of perpetuating a system of suppression.
"The DNC acknowledges and honors the Dakota Oyate – the Dakota people – who are the original stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis," Sowmick said. "The Dakota cared for the lands, lakes and the Wakpa Tanka – the ‘Great River,’ the Mississippi River – for thousands of years before colonization. This land was not claimed, or traded – it's a part of a history of broken treaties and promises. And, in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress Indigenous peoples' cultural and spiritual history."
Carville questioned how this is relevant to the DNC's work.
"This is an election, and the DNC is not the place to discuss this. Understand this, the DNC does not exist to right wrongs. It doesn’t exist to acknowledge the more unpleasant parts of history. It doesn’t exist to make people feel good. It exists — just get it through your head —to win elections," he said.
"Now do you think that is going to help us win elections, say, like we did in Iowa?" Carville asked.
"Please stop this, in the name of a just, merciful God," Carville continued. "Don’t you see what’s happening? Don’t you see where this has brought us to? For God's sake, lady. And what is [DNC chairman] Ken Martin doing, doing that? You don’t have but one job, kid! It’s to win!"
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