James Carville is breaking his silence on the reelection of former President Donald Trump.
The longtime Democratic strategist was among millions of voters rooting for Vice President Kamala Harris to win at the polls, and previously shared just how “scared” he was about another potential Trump term — which was ultimately secured early Wednesday morning.
“I have to reevaluate,” Carville said 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 in the Electoral College and looks to be on track to win the popular vote as well.
Carville expressed genuine shock about living in a country “that has put a felonious bigot,” who was indicted on election interference charges last year for his actions following the 2020 election and was convicted in a historic hush money trial, back in power.
Carville, who helped elect former President Bill Clinton in 1992, rued Thursday that “every advantage” the Democratic Party had leading up to the election “didn’t amount to anything,” as voters saw Trump as a clearer answer to U.S. domestic “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 said. “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 increasingly xenophobic campaign that relied on racist fears about violent immigrants bringing “bad genes” into the country and destroying American communities by “poisoning the blood” of innocent citizens. He was seemingly rewarded for it Tuesday.
Carville previously warned that the MAGA leader, who earlier this year floated the idea of unleashing the U.S. military on “radical leftists” in case of civil unrest following his election, will persecute his political opponents once back in the White House.
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The renowned strategist, who recently decried the supposedly “fair” media coverage of Trump for normalizing his unscrupulous behaviors, spoke plainly Tuesday about the ominous feeling of waking up to another Trump presidency.
“I’ll snap out of it,” Carville concluded, “but I’m in a very, very dark tunnel right now.”