In "Breaking Bad," the character Walter White explains to a major drug dealer why cheaper knockoffs of his signature Blue Sky methamphetamine are just not enough: "So… it’s grade-school tee-ball vs.the New York Yankees.
Yours is just some tepid… off-brand, generic cola.What I’m making is classic Coke."This week, veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville released his own uncut, undiluted classic product to a nation of rage addicts.
Blue Sky rage.What set off Carville was telling.He and others were outraged that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met with Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser Jared Kushner to discuss areas of common ground.
Such dialogue "with the enemy" is unthinkable in what I consider our "age of rage," particularly for someone like Carville.The political strategist who previously threatened that, once Democrats are back in power, Trump allies and institutions that enabled the president should be treated the same way as Nazi collaborators were after World War II.Carville went into his signature berserker trance on his podcast, appropriately called the "Politics War Room": "These people are a pack of felons and traitors, and you do not meet with them! You do not meet with them.
There’s only one thing you can do with people that you genuinely believe deep inside of every fabric of your body are a pack of thieves and a pack of traitors."JAMES CARVILLE GOES NUCLEAR ON JEFFRIES OVER JARED KUSHNER SIT-DOWN AND DEMANDS DEMOCRATS DRAW A LINEAs usual, Carville delivers the line with the intensity of a man seconds away from a self-induced stroke.The message, however, is clear.
Anyone seeking a middle ground or compromise is a traitor and will be dealt with the same way as Nazi collaborators once Democrats regain power.What is really on display is rage politics.When you feed this addiction, you have to keep your product pure to avoid the pain of rage withdrawal.
Carville is asking Democrats the same question as Walter White wh...