What James Carville Got Wrong

James Carville lamented in a video that he and the Democratic Party have made some faulty assumptions about young people, the New York Post reports.

Said Carville: “Anybody that’s been around in politics as long as I have, you make monumental mistakes — strategic mistakes. Maybe the biggest one I made is I wrote a book saying the Democrats were destined to win for 40 more years because, look — we had the under-30s, we had non-White voters, and that was a growing coalition that would win elections.”

He added: “It’s what I call ‘political Presbyterianism,’ that elections are ordained and you can just put something in a fucking computer and it’ll spit out the percent you’re going to get. It turned out that that was a really, really stupid assumption.”