Speaking during the Wednesday, March 4 broadcast of SiriusXM’s “Straight Shooter with Stephen A”, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville refused to back off from his calls for Ilhan Omar to leave the Democratic Party because of her open and blatant anti-white male bigotry, something he argues is setting the party back.
That came as Carville spoke to sports commentator Stephen A Smith, who asked him about a clip from May of 2025 in which the frustrated strategist demanded that Ilhan Omar leave the Democratic Party and start her own because of her rhetorical attacks on white males, which he saw as both wrong and politically counterproductive.
Explaining his call for her to leave, Carville admitted that Omar is liked by many within the leftist fringes of the party, “but she started attacking White males, and I’m gonna say, ‘Wait a minute, let’s stop. Alright.’ In 2024, 72% of the people that voted were White. All right? That’s just a fact. Of that, 72, probably 48% or 48 and a half, were male.”
Continuing, Carville noted how she was attacking roughly a third of all American voters with her commentary, which he saw as being very politically counter-productive. He said, “about 33% of the people that are gonna vote are gonna be White males. Well, it’s stupid to attack 33% of the voters!”
Still not done, Carville then said that Omar, if she wants to stick by such awful and counter-productive rhetoric, should join a radical party like the Democratic Socialists of America rather than sticking with the DNC and sinking it. He said, “And so what I would say to Congresswoman Omar, ‘Why don’t you be a Democratic Socialist of America?’”
Adding to that, he noted that he shares many issues in common with Omar, but sees her as putting the whole coalition at risk. He said, “Do what AOC did, and then if they win, the truth of that is, I share a lot of ideological issues in common with Congressman Omar, but maybe you should do like a parliamentary government. We’ll let you in the governing coalition, but not the electoral coalition.”
Then, returning to the matter of just how insane and counter-productive Ilhan Omar’s attacks on white men are, Carville argued that national elections will be essentially impossible for the party to win if she sticks to such rhetoric. “But we cannot- we have to get this mentality out that we can win national elections [without] White people, because you can’t,” Carville said.
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Concluding that point, he noted that what she is pushing with such attacks is not just marginally wrong, but utter insanity on every level, from the basic math of American electoral politics to the cultural math of how things are starting to stack up against Democrats as more and more Americans are turned off by radical, hateful rhetoric spewed by types like Ilhan Omar. He said, “That we can somehow or another win an election without White males. It’s just insanity. It’s literally mathematical insanity, cultural insanity.”
He later argued, “All white people are not the same. All black people are not the same. All Hispanic people are not the same, all right? And I don’t like generalizing about someone’s gender or their race or their sexual preference or anything else. All gay people are not the same. They’re very different personalities. They’re very different values, very different everything.” He concluded, “And I just don’t like, and I know when people say it, that they’re trying to be inclusive in their language, but I don’t think they stop and think of what they’re telling somebody.”
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