And replaced by whom? A populist dinosaur pipe dreaming of "moving the left?" Be real, wake up and smell the coffee. Carville was dead right even though this was not his original idea. Democrats failed because they did not provide an emotionally compelling narrative for the TV-brainwashed moronic masses to compel them to go out and pull the level for their man. The Repugs did and won. It is that simple.
As HL Mencken aptly observed, most people cannot comprehend political ideas, they do not know hat is good or bad for them - and there are good structural reasons for that, which I mentioned elsewhere on this list. Their political behavior is guided mainly by emotional appeals and fear.
Politicians know that and use it to their advantage. They are like used car dealers: selling you a suspicious product of unknown quality i.e. operating under the condition of information asymmetry. This causes apprehension in the buyers. Dealers know that and do their best to dispel that apprehension by creating the illusion of familiarity - by being folksy, pretending to be the buyer's friend, and channeling the buyer's fears on the boogey men of other dealers. Everyone knows that, everyone hates them for that, yet most folks fall for their tricks.
Welcome to Bush America. "Da people" just fell for the oldest used car dealer trick on the books and ended up buying that old oil-leaking jalopy with a faulty head gasket from the Bush/Cheney shop. And it happened mainly because the guy who was selling them a slightly used BMW appeared too snotty and did not tell them the bullshit they wanted to hear. It is only logical that the BWW dealer must come with a more polished sales pitch if they want to be back in business.
Wojtek