I will believe faculty lounge politics is a thing when our faculty gets a lounge. I will believe that faculty lounge politics has the power that James Carville attributes to it when universities spend one-tenth of the money on faculty lounges as they do on football locker rooms. 
I am asking everyone replying with "Carville doesn't believe there is an actual faculty lounge, its all just a metaphor" to think this through. He is framing the problem of an intellectual elite cloistered off from the real world who condescend to ordinary people. Thats populism.
My faculty lounge position on this is that people can use any terms they want to describe themselves, and it costs nothing to use terms that other people would prefer, but there is a real danger to blaming every fucking trend you dislike in the world on a cabal of intellectuals.
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