James Carville is issuing his most dire and aggressive prediction to date about the ramifications of former President Donald Trump potentially retaking the White House, warning that his political foes will face unconstitutional arrest.
“He is telling you right to your stupid fucking face that he is going to use the military to arrest and suppress his political opponents,” the Democratic strategist argued Monday in a video for Politicon.
Carville also suggested that even non-Republican swing voters are in danger.
“I’m sure that I, and everybody else that does this for a living, is going to get asked, ‘What about the swing voters in such and such a state?’” He said. “You know where they’re all going to swing from? The end of a rope, alright?”
While the former president has proposed that the military should handle “radical left lunatics” and whoever he considers an “enemy from within” in case of civil unrest following his potential election, Carville’s claim that voters would be hanged is alarming.
Carville, who has been advising Vice President Kamala Harris from the sidelines in the media throughout her ongoing presidential campaign, also argued that this year’s election is about more than policy.
“One candidate says we should follow the Constitution … we should try to improve the Constitution,” he said in the Politicon video. “Another candidate says, ‘I’m going to rip the Constitution up … I don’t care about people’s individual rights, I’m going to arrest political opponents.’”
“That is correct, just so you know that,” he continued. “This is not an exaggeration.”
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If he wins, Trump may attempt to jail his political rivals during a second term, which he has previously suggested.
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Carville also warned about this on Monday, saying, “You better pay attention.”
“And every time you have somebody who is a friend of yours, somebody says, ‘Well, I’m going to vote for Trump,’ [you say], ‘Just so you know what you’re voting for, do you really want me to go to jail? Because that’s what you’re voting for. He’s telling you,’” he added.