AOC triggered by Carville's knock on 'preachy females' dominating Democratic Party: 'Start a podcast about it'

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took a shot at Democratic strategist James Carville on social media Sunday after he went viral for saying that his party's problem was with a predominance of messaging from "preachy females."

"A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females," Carville said in an interview with a New York Times columnist on self-defeating messaging that he claimed was prevalent in his party. "’Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you.’"

He continued: "The message is too feminine: ‘Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas.’"

JAMES CARVILLE'S COMMENT ABOUT 'PREACHY FEMALES' REFLECTS HOW DEMOCRATIC PARTY DOESN'T STAND FOR 'MASCULINITY'

"Maybe he should start a podcast about it," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a post on X. "I hear men are really underrepresented in that space."

The far-left congresswoman is often not shy to criticize other Democrats she perceives as insufficiently progressive.

The moment underscored the tensions in the party, as the Democrats' hard-left flank is often accused by figures like Carville of favoring ideological purity over pragmatism and results. Carville rose to fame as Bill Clinton's chief campaign strategist in 1992.

Carville also slammed elites in the