Top Dem strategist James Carville tells progressives to start their own pronoun party while bashing Arizona state chair

Veteran Democratic campaign strategist James Carville advised the new chairman of Arizona’s Democratic Party to “shut up” or start a new progressive party.The Democratic Party has been struggling to re-define itself since the election, as leaders debate over whether to moderate or double-down on far-left identity politics.Carville, a frequent critic of some of the party’s more progressive members, noted that the Democratic Party is doing unusually well in the red state of Arizona, where they have a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators.

However, he warned that far-left politics and in-fighting may endanger this rare opportunity.Carville read from a recent New York Times article, headlined, “A Vulnerable Governor and an Intraparty Feud Signal a Bumpy Road for Democrats.” The Times reported that Arizona Democratic chairman Robert Branscomb had been “clashing with staff members over personnel decisions and accused them of sabotaging him by withholding financial documents.” The article also claimed Branscomb, “wrote to party members detailing the infighting and attacking Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, both Democrats, for criticizing one of his staffing choices.”Carville praised Kelly and Gallego, arguing to Branscomb, “You ain’t been elected to s—.So why don’t you shut up?” He went on to argue in his video posted to the Politicon YouTube channel, “that’s the problem with this, these people from the ‘progressive’ whatever the f— that is, that come into these state parties that didn’t do anything that have outstanding Democratic elected officials.

He’s fighting with the governor.We finally have a Democratic governor, and this guy exemplifies to me what’s wrong with that wing of the party.”He noted one quote attributed to Branscomb, where he reportedly declared, “I will not be coerced, and I will not be silenced,” and offered a barbed response.“Well why don’t you just shut up anyway? Because...