James Carville is exactly right.

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20. Carville has gotten ever-more obnoxious with time.

He was way over the top.

But not completely wrong. The absolutist and abolitionist language of some on the Left is joy to the ears of the likes of Tucker Carlson. Plus it's arguably stupid, pie-in-the-sky dreams.

The long, slow work of making a case for systemic change is completely overlooked in such calls. Instead the demands to defund the police and abolish ICE are heard by a majority who have no idea what has been happening or why someone might make that demand as just crazy talk.

Make the case. Do the documentaries. File the civil rights lawsuits. Get hearings held in Congress. Call for systemic reform. Do it for the years it takes to bring about systemic change. But don't start with the demand for the whole hog. You won't get it. Instead you will give RW media a battering ram to use to make their case that the Left is crazy and dangerous. You'll hurt the electoral chances of those who might hold those hearings, putting systemic change farther away.

I really don't like Carville. I wish I didn't think he has a point.