Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who wagered Monday that President Joe Biden will exit the presidential race following last months’ disastrous debate against Donald Trump, argued Friday that a second Trump term would mean “the end of the Constitution.”
“I think that you are going to see a destroyed NATO,” said Carville on Mediaite’s “Press Club” podcast. “We’re going to be express the values of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. … They’re already telling it, this whole thing about Project [2025], it’s almost predictable.”
Carville said implementing the right-wing policy manifesto, whose authors include former Trump advisers and current campaign aides, “would be so tragic and so against who we are as a country that you almost want to laugh at it.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House communications director under Trump, warned Thursday that Project 2025 calls for replacing federal experts in key roles at vital agencies with MAGA loyalists. Trump recently claimed to “know nothing” about the plan.
Carville replied bluntly when asked Friday what he foresees from another Trump term.
“Lawlessness on a scale that we can’t comprehend,” the 79-year-old strategist said on the podcast. “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.”
“I think it’d be the end of the Constitution. I really do,” he added. “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.”
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The 151-year-old anti-obscenity law could be used to restrict abortion at the federal level, even in states that currently protect abortion access, if enforced to the degree that Trump and his pro-life base have already suggested they intend to.
Carville called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who believes creationist museums tell “the truth,” and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who declared his support of Christian nationalism Monday, for defending such intrusive policies under the guise of religion.
Carville seems eager to see Biden replaced as the Democratic nominee, but also argued that “there’s only one hope for America” — in a rallying cry to vote blue no matter who.
“Because if we lose, we lose the Constitution,” he said Friday. “If you think these guys give a rat’s ass about freedom of speech — freedom of anything — you’re just not living in the world.”