As the midterms draw nearer, longtime Democratic political strategist James Carville is calling on his party to embrace the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression to capitalize on Americans fury over the Trump administrations handling of the economy. In an op-ed for the New York Times, he wrote that despite being 81 years old and coming from a more centrist political era, it is abundantly clear even to him that this is how Democrats can seize the moment. Related Atrocious! Analyst explains just how bad Trump is doing in the polls It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage, he wrote. This is our only way out of the abyss.Democrats swept in the most recent elections, he explained, because people are angry, and that anger is always directed at the ruling party. The people are revolting, he said, and they have been for some time. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Indeed, CNNs chief data analyst, Harry Enten, recently told viewers that according to a University of Michigan poll, consumer sentiment regarding current economic conditions is at its worst ever, dating back to 1951. Data also shows that Americans blame the president for the challenges. Enten said 61% of Americans believe Trumps policies have worsened economic conditions, and 51% say his policies have hurt their own finances. He also assessed pure independents, which he defined as folks who do not lean toward the left or right. You rarely ever see a numberthis high, he said. 79% of pureindependents disapprove of Trumpon the economy. When you put it alltogether with the approvalratings, it averages out to anet approval rating on theeconomy among pure independents of get this, minus-58 points, Enten said.Carville said Democrats already turn out urban and suburban voters, and now they must use this economic anger to bring more rural voters into their tent. He said the party must build a platform that helps us permanently uproot the Republican advantage in more rural regions, which can be done only with good old-fashioned economic populism, both in message and measure.In practice, he explained, this means every single Democratic campaign should be fueled by rage against the rigged, screwed-up, morally bankrupt system that gave us the cost of living crisis. If Democrats dont criticize the system, he said, we will continue to be viewed as part of it. This rage, he said, means being bold and unafraid to support policy plans that the people have long wanted and that every American can understand.In the richest country in the history of our planet, we should not fear raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour, which had a74% approval ratingin 2023, he said. We should not fear an America with free public college tuition, which63% of U.S. adultsfavored in a 2021 poll. When 62% of Americans say their electricity or gas bills have increased in the past year and80% feel powerless to control their utility costs,we should not fear the idea of expanding rural broadband as a public utility. Or when70% of Americans sayraising children is too expensive, we should not fear making universal child care a public good.And darn it, he concluded, we should not fear that running on a platform of seismic economic scale will cost us a general election. Weve already lost enough of them by being afraid to try. The era of half-baked political policy is over.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.