Strategist warns GOP is about to 'find out' having 'no money' energizes Americans
Democratic strategist James Carville said Democrats shouldn’t wait for mid-term elections to be underway to start campaigning on heartfelt issues like economics, freedom and government corruption, especially on the heels of recent nationwide protests.
“There’s a golden issue on the shutdown and a golden issue on the subsidies,” Carville said on his “Politics War Room” podcast. “I did not realize what a difference these subsidies for health insurance make. I thought it was maybe $175 a year for people. But it’s not. It’s thousands, and now is the time to start kicking the s—— out of [Republicans] who want to take them away. Don’t wait until we get to an election cycle and raise all this soft money. Start now. Start pommeling them. This is what it is about.”
Carville reserved contempt for Democrats who refuse to take a hard stand at this welcome opportunity and try to play to both sides of the political spectrum.
“This both-sideism b—— saying ‘this is another sign of Washington dysfunction’ and ‘he said/she said' —No it’s not. The people have no money. They can’t afford [healthcare]. And [Republicans] are going to take [subsidies] away give rich people a tax cut. The public is engaged. And I better not see one more g—— chin-scratcher on TV saying 'a pox on both your houses.' No. There’s something at stake here and you’ve got to drive it home.”
Along with concerns about the decay of U.S. democracy and bread and butter issues, Carville said American voters are genuinely beginning to feel dirty with all the corruption coming out of the White House.
“[Border czar Tom Homan’s] $50,000 money bag — people understand that,” Carville said, while also hammering House Speaker Mike Johnson’s complicity in protecting wealthy men connected to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Johnson is refusing to seat a Democrat who could force the release of Epstein’s files.
“How does this [stonewalling] end satisfactorily for them?” Carville asked co-host Al Hunt. “If you’re a Republican House member caught up in this there is no [optimistic] conclusion to this. It’s not going away. The crime is too easy for people to understand.”
Carville then cited a memoir from Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, claiming her father abused her while taking money from Epstein himself.
“What they did. Can you imagine if they did something like this to one of your daughters or your wife? What they were doing was [unbelievable]. And what kind of weirdo would get any satisfaction from forcing themselves on a child?”
This launched Carville into a devastating beatdown of Johnson’s maneuvers to delay the release of the files, as President Donald Trump has demanded.
“This is why I have such hatred for Johnson,” Carville said. “He’s so dishonest and so duplicitous. He’s so self-righteous. He must be appalled [by Giuffre’s memoire] but he just lies and he does it like he’s telling the f—— truth. My contempt for him as a fellow human being could choke a river.”
“Mike Johnson has no moral or ethical bottom. He also has zero self-awareness of how big of a ... hypocrite he is,” Carville added. “But, be that as it may, they’re gonna find out to their surprise that a lot of Americans have been energized.”
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