Carville Warns Of Lawless ‘Catastrophe’ If Trump Wins — ‘Convoluted Constipated’ Democrats Are Our Last Hope

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville told Mediaite that a win by ex-President Donald Trump means a lawless “catastrophe” — and a flawed Democratic Party is the only hope for democracy.

Carville was a guest on this week’s edition of Mediaite’s new Press Club podcast, hosted by Aidan McLaughlin.

In their wide-ranging interview, McLaughlin asked Carville to lay out what to expect in the case of a Trump win, and Carville unleashed a nightmare scenario — with the “unwieldy, convoluted, constipated” Democratic Party as the last hope:

Say Democrats can’t turn it around. Trump wins. What do you think we have in store for a second Trump term? What does that look like?

Lawlessness on a scale that we can’t comprehend. They’re already coming out saying they’re going to do it. Christian nationalism is going to take hold in the courts. If Trump wins, he will turn over everything to them. It’s the most insidious, dangerous, anti-American thing that I could possibly think of. But it sounds quite fine, you’re a Christian, you’re a nationalist, what’s that? Everything.

I think that you are going to see a destroyed NATO. We’re going to be expressing the values of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. We’re going to continue down the path of lawlessness. I don’t know, what else can I say? They’re already telling it, this whole thing about Project 25, it’s almost predictable. It would be so tragic and so against who we are as a country that you almost want to laugh at it.

But the catastrophe that awaits, and I literally think this, I think it’d be the end of the Constitution. I really do. I already see that we’re starting to place people above the law. I’ve already seen where Supreme Court justices are talking about the Comstock Act. I’m already seeing Josh Hawley and Mike Johnson say, I’m a Christian nationalist, you got a problem with that?

And I think this is just going to encourage more and more and more of that.

And the one thing I do firmly believe is that there’s only one hope for America, and that’s the Democratic Party. There’s no hope outside of that bucket.

When you look at it you say, “Goddamn, that’s an unwieldy, convoluted, constipated thing if I ever saw one.”

And you’re right about everything. But that’s all we got. We got nothing else, and we got to at least get this thing kind of right and win.

Because if we lose, we lose the Constitution. If you think that these guys give a rat’s ass about freedom of speech, freedom of anything, you’re just not living in the world. And that’s what I think. And it’s one of those things where I’m pretty sure I’m right. I’m really not having second thoughts on that.

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