Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville has slammed the plan by Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg to overhaul the party.
Hogg, a notorious gun-grabber, announced plans to spend $20 million on launching primary challenges against “ineffective” Democrat lawmakers.
Carville, a lead strategist in Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, called Hogg’s plan “the most insane thing” he has “ever heard.”
The plan was announced Wednesday by Leaders We Deserve, a political organization led by Hogg.
The organization will spend $20 million to help elect younger, more radical Democrats.
The effort includes supporting primary challengers to House Democrats in safe seats that Hogg argues “are asleep at the wheel.”
Carville told CNN that Hogg’s plans are “insane.”
He questioned why the newly elected DNC vice chair isn’t using these funds to “take on a Republican.”
The longtime Democrat strategist questioned whether Hogg was breaching his “fiduciary duty” to the Democratic Party.
Carville noted that Hogg is raising money to primary members of his own party.
“He is an officer of the Democratic National Committee,” Carville asserted.
“And so he has a fiduciary duty to the Democratic Party, and he’s going to raise $20 million and primary Democrats?”
He also lashed out at Hogg for going after Democrats rather than focusing on lawmakers from across the aisle.
Carville explained that Hogg’s plan will do nothing to help Democrats regain control of the House.
Instead, it will only help push the Democrats further left.
“Does he really think the problem that we‘re facing in the United States today is because we got 65-year-old Democrats in office?” Carville questioned.
“Why don’t you take on a Republican? That’s your job.”
He continued his criticisms of Hogg’s plans, saying:
“The most insane thing I ever heard is the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee is spending $20 million running against other Democrats.
“Aren’t we supposed to run against Republicans?”
Carville joked he may be too “old-fashioned” to understand the young DNC vice chair’s strategy.
“I‘m not part of the hip generation,” he quipped.
“I’m not very au courant.
“But I actually thought our job was to beat Republicans?
“How quaint, how quaint of me.”
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