Carville Says GOP ‘Justified’ in Thinking Democrats Will ‘Sit Around and Talk About Veganism and Pronouns’ If Roe Is Overturned

James Carville argued Republicans do not fear the potential political ramifications of overturning longstanding abortion precedent because Democrats are currently dysfunctional.

The architect of former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 election victory joined CNN’s OutFront Thursday evening where he discussed the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned with host Erin Burnett.

An opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito leaked Monday signals the court might be primed to overturn the landmark abortion case. It reads in part,

Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.

Burnett noted Democrats have been discussing using the leak in order to motivate voters ahead of the midterms.

Carville was not convinced Democrats can summon the messaging to shift the political winds in their favor.

He explained he is bothered by the potential Roe v. Wade will be overturned, but he said the point is the majority conservative court does not fear the Democratic Party.

Today, they have no fear of Democrats, that’s why they do this. Democrats, you got to understand just what a huge event this is in American politics. The Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. Roe is over two to one in approval, and Alito and them said we don’t care, we’re not fair, and we don’t care and all the Democrats are going to do is sit around and talk about veganism and pronouns. And to some extent, that is a justified opinion that they have.

Carville offered examples of ways he said the loss of abortion access would harm women and girls. He concluded progressives are lost with regard to reaching voters:

If this doesn’t motivate people, if this doesn’t get you going, then I can’t do anything to help you. And I’ll tell you who’s not helping is these progressive advocacy groups. No one cares what they say, no one fears them and they need to start dispatching people to Georgia and North Carolina and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Nevada and Arizona and places like that, and get out of Washington, and get out of talking points and get out there in the field and start registering people and motivating people, that’s what I think.

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