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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this is the occam's razor answer re people like david axelrod and james carville.

Antifascist Militant@antifasictmilatant.bsky.social

They literally don't want democrats to win.

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Jack Nicholson’s Alt @thevinyllitigator.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A good way to think about the relevance of James Carville is if someone who worked on Grover Cleveland’s successful 1892 campaign spent all their time critiquing FDR’s 1932 campaign as not being the real Democratic Party that Cleveland represented.

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Trojan Duck @yossarian320.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'd bet real money that there are contemporaneous news articles doing exactly this kind of concern trolling of FDR.

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pwbuffalo.bsky.social @pwbuffalo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If not for Perot splitting the conservative vote in 92, Carville would have absolutely nothing to hang his hat on. He’s a clown who has been coasting for 30 years on a reputation earned by circumstance.

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gilwickcrankberry.bsky.social @gilwickcrankberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Plus, this character led zero other successful campaigns in the intervening years.

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mcbzac @mcbzac.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is an incredibly accurate description

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Jack Nicholson’s Alt @thevinyllitigator.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That’s to say the relevance of their opinion should be treated as nothing.

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Cassandra @cldek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

attn @theparthecraft.bsky.social

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Eighty-Six Forty-Seven @superjaded8.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Any time I see him associated with a campaign, I know to write off the candidate (looking at you Mallory McMorrow)

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Chris Bellomy @iconoplasty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Why go through that when we can just cite Al Smith? The current revolt from the conservative wing has roots in the last gasp of machine politics around that time

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DPRK Train Pusher @dprktrainpusher42.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Seeing how neoliberalism is "classical liberalism with an activist state dedicated to marketizing hitherto unmarketized things"—neoliberalism, it might be said, is the most advanced stage of economic liberalism—this comparison works on multiple levels

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TriemVisual @triem23.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Carville, who, in his 80's, said Biden was too old to be POTUS and step down can follow his own advice and go away now.

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Dave Goldberg (he/him) @drdavegoldberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If only that MFer and those like them had shut the hell up and let us run with "weird," we wouldn't be in this mess.

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Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Carville's the kind of guy who would have backed William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson, too

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jack @jackalltogether.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

he’s like a guy who worked on Woodrow Wilson’s 1912 campaign taking credit for Taft running third party. he’s also like a guy who would agree with most of Wilson’s beliefs on, uh, “human biodiversity”

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Okay but was also married to a strategist for Herbert Hoover en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ma...

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Mary Matalin - Wikipedia

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Or even Al Smith's. (clutches Victorian era pearls) "You can't have a Catholic presidential candidate! The next thing you know, the Mayor of New York will be of Italian descent!"

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Kevin D @k-e-v-i-n-d.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@thepundick.bsky.social

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Gary Keizur @stpraamp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

He's the Democratic Party's equivalent of Andy Rooney. Illustrious early career, settled into curmudgeonly sarcasm. But usually pretty entertaining.

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TheEggOne @theeggone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Same applies to David Axelrod. Generals always prepare for the last war

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Denise Clair @deeclair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I ❤️ this!! I can’t stand that man! Sit and shut up! You’re taking up room that someone half your age should be occupying!

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

except no muppets weere harmed in Clinton's victory

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Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That some members of Congress have been kicking around since the equivalent of the Garfield/Arthur administration tends to complicate things.

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Steve Uncle, People's Champion @the-barely-jew.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

FDR's countenance caused such shock to my corpus that my monocle dropped into my champagne

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bigt383.bsky.social @bigt383.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To be fair, I notice you went right to FDR’s winning 1932 campaign instead of the more timeframe-appropriate 1928 blowout loss by Al Smith. Time will tell which comparison is more appropriate I suppose.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this is so perfect that I bitterly envy you for having come up with it first 🏆

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coastally1337 @coastally1337.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Y’know who’s got the right idea? Jimmy Garfield. What a president!

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