James Carville is breaking his silence on the reelection of former President Donald Trump.
The longtime Democratic strategist was amongst thousands and thousands of voters rooting for Vice President Kamala Harris to win on the polls, and beforehand shared simply how “scared” he was about one other potential Trump time period — which was in the end secured early Wednesday morning.
“I have to reevaluate,” Carville mentioned Thursday in a video for Politicon.
“I’m sure I’ll come up with something to make me feel good again, but right now, today, it’s hard, I’ll be honest with you,” he continued. “And the hardest thing is that I look across this country and tens of millions of people fell for this shit, and it’s depressing.”
Trump defeated Harris within the Electoral School and appears to be on monitor to win the favored vote as effectively.
Carville expressed real shock about residing in a rustic “that has put a felonious bigot,” who was indicted on election interference fees final 12 months for his actions following the 2020 election and was convicted in a historic hush cash trial, again in energy.
Carville, who helped elect former President Invoice Clinton in 1992, rued Thursday that “every advantage” the Democratic Social gathering had main as much as the election “didn’t amount to anything,” as voters noticed Trump as a clearer reply to U.S. home “disorder” than Harris.
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“We had every advantage, but we had the perception of disorder on every kind of level: border policy, foreign policy, economic policy,” he mentioned. “At the end of the day, it seems to me that the operative word here is that people want order and will pay anything to have order.”
Trump ran an more and more xenophobic marketing campaign that relied on racist fears about violent immigrants bringing “bad genes” into the nation and destroying American communities by “poisoning the blood” of harmless residents. He was seemingly rewarded for it Tuesday.
Carville beforehand warned that the MAGA chief, who earlier this 12 months floated the concept of unleashing the U.S. army on “radical leftists” in case of civil unrest following his election, will persecute his political opponents as soon as again within the White Home.
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The famend strategist, who lately decried the supposedly “fair” media protection of Trump for normalizing his unscrupulous behaviors, spoke plainly Tuesday in regards to the ominous feeling of waking as much as one other Trump presidency.
“I’ll snap out of it,” Carville concluded, “but I’m in a very, very dark tunnel right now.”
