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Carville: Democrats Can Win Back Young Voters by Prioritizing Affordability — 'Quit F---ing Around' with Culture Wars

08:49 PM, 11/29/2025
Carville: Democrats Can Win Back Young Voters by Prioritizing Affordability — 'Quit F---ing Around' with Culture Wars

James Carville urged Democrats to shift focus from culture-war fights to an affordability agenda that addresses housing costs, stagnant wages, and competitive entry-level jobs. He warned that the current economic system favors older homeowners and savers at the expense of younger generations. Carville said the party should talk about raising pay and protecting people trying to get ahead, or risk a political backlash.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville warned that shifting economic realities have left younger Americans behind and urged Democrats to stop focusing on divisive culture-war fights and instead prioritize an affordability agenda to win back support.

Observers across the political spectrum have highlighted an affordability crisis: rising housing costs, stagnant real wages, and increased competition for entry-level jobs — including greater use of H-1B visa workers in some industries — are making it harder for young people to reach the middle class.

'There’s several ways you can attack it, but one of the ways is you can pay people more. And if you look at, if you want to know the rage in this country since, let's just say 2009 is the starting point, 2010, and you look at corporate profits growth and look at real hourly wage growth — I'm just going to say that the economic system in the United States has got to change, and it's gone way too far in favoring old people, favoring savers, favoring homeowners... and it's screwed this younger generation.'

Carville added a direct warning to political leaders: 'You better fix this, or it's going to get fixed for you, and it's not — it's going to be ugly when it gets fixed for you. People are tired of it.'

He urged Democrats to 'quit f---ing around' with cultural issues and to refocus on concrete economic policies that matter to working families: boosting wages, improving housing affordability, and protecting young people entering the labor market.

Carville argues that a clear, affordability-first message — rather than emphasis on cultural battles — could help the party reconnect with younger voters and working-class constituencies. Whether Democrats adopt that approach, he believes, will shape their electoral prospects.

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