'We demand a repeal': James Carville's 2026 game plan - The 11th Hour - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Democratic strategist James Carville is out with a new strategy to unify the party in 2026. He joins Stephanie Ruhle to discuss on The 11th Hour. - Aired on 07/21/2025.

[Just Jerome]

1. I can't help

but feel as though I’m listening to a door-to-door salesman, though I do not deny the need for a unifying idea(s). I’m more interested in the message from Bernie and Ocasio-Cortez.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Same here!!!

My thoughts on the Epstein files - Sen. Bernie Sanders
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132282148

[bucolic_frolic]

3. The party is a whole apparatus

but the president or presidential nominee has tremendous power. Do our policies, platform, and ideology fluctuate too much? We get walloped when our ideas are distorted by the opposition. Wise elites in the party should be doing more to guide the long term best interests of the party. If they were going to force Biden out, they waited too long, and they could see the direction 6 months earlier. To grow our base and generate enthusiasm we embrace change, but then we're bludgeoned with those ideas in the general election.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

4. OK

So carrying this hypothetical scenario out over a couple of cycles, the "we demand a repeal" message works, we win the House & the Senate in 2026, use reconciliation to repeal the bill, Trump vetoes it, and we don't have the votes to override.

Dem voters are upset that the bill isn't repealed, so in 2028, we keep the House & Senate, and win the Presidency, and the bill is repealed. Middle income families who have been told for years that they don't receive any benefit in the tax cuts suddenly see their paychecks go down by a few hundred dollars a month and say "WTF?".

If we're going for a repeal message, I would target the repeal to the part of the bill that kept tax cuts at the high end; stick with President Biden's message of not raising taxes on any incomes of $200,000 or less ($400,000 or less for couples), and let the top brackets go back up.

And of course repeal the cuts to Medicaid/Medicare.

[Phoenix61]

5. Lamest slogan ever. Talk about being out of touch.

Has he talked to anyone under 60?

[jaymac]

9. please

please stop listening to this guy. he is not helping in any way shape or form.

[VanceFan]

6. Go away

Why are we still listening to this guy? He is out of date and out of touch.

[SonOfNebanaube]

7. a repeal and a return to Eisenhower tax rates.

Punish them.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. I'm not sure...

...that nearly doubling the income tax of a couple making $100,000 is a winning strategy.