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James Carville wielded a sharp scalpel as he conducted an autopsy on the corpse of the Kamala Harris campaign with a contributing factor to the death of her White House hopes being the Democratic Party’s embrace of “woke” terminology.

The veteran Democrat strategist blasted what he described as “NPR language” that was a turnoff to voters during an interview on Friday’s edition of “Rising” for the political news outlet, The Hill.

During his chat with host Niall Stanage, he said that while Harris herself mostly avoided talking the “woke” talk, such terms as “Defund the police” and “Latinx” stuck with voters when it came to defining the doomed candidate and the party.

The “Ragin’ Cajun” noted that while he prefers not to use the terms “woke” or “wokeness,” which have been effectively used to define Democrats, he said that “NPR language” describes language that is  “politically correct.”

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He credited Harris for successfully staying away from the offensive terms, bringing up her remarks during a town hall with Oprah Winfrey about potentially using her gun to shoot an intruder who broke into her house.

“If you noticed, [Harris] talked about if somebody breaks into her house, she’s gonna shoot them,” Carville told the host. “She didn’t use any of that NPR language, which is so devastating to Democrats.”

“What you look for with politics revolves around things we call sticky, things that you remember, like ‘Defund the police,’ three stupidest words in the history of the English language,” he explained. “But it stuck.”

He also criticized the term Latinx which he said “puts people off” and that “they still use this ridiculous language…it’s very counterproductive, I can tell them that.”

“Some of this is just so idiotic that it defies imagination that people live like this,” Carville added. “Can you imagine a majority black city? If I saw three black guys on a street corner, and I said, ‘Good morning fellas. How are things in the community of color today?’ they wouldn’t know what I was talking about.”

The salty Louisiana octogenarian said that “most everybody” is now trying to avoid the “NPR language” and “rub this stench off,” hoping that it will be gone by the 2026 midterm elections.

Carville also broke down the 2024 disaster in a Friday op-ed for The New York Times, mapping the way out of the wilderness for Democrats.

In the column, Carville repackaged the iconic slogan, “It’s the economy stupid,” that made him famous and put Bill Clinton in the White House, a year after incumbent George H.W. Bush enjoyed a 90 percent approval rating.

“I’ve been going over this in my head for the past two months, all the variables, all the what-ifs, all the questions about Joe Biden’s re-election decisions and what kind of Democrat or message might have worked against Donald Trump,” Carville confessed. “I keep coming back to the same thing. We lost for one very simple reason: It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid. We have to begin 2025 with that truth as our political north star and not get distracted by anything else.”

“Mr. Trump won the popular vote by putting the economic anger of Americans front and center. If we focus on anything else, we risk falling farther into the abyss,” he wrote.

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