James Carville Agrees Dem Party Has Become ‘Cracked-Out Clown Car’
Democratic strategist James Carville wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Times that he has heard fellow Democrats describe their party as a “cracked-out clown car.” Carville also wrote in the same op-ed that his…
Democratic strategist James Carville wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Times that he has heard fellow Democrats describe their party as a “cracked-out clown car.”
Carville also wrote in the same op-ed that his party is “in shambles.” His comments come after a growing number of reports that Democrats have been in the political “wilderness” in the aftermath of the party’s decisive losses during the 2024 election cycle.
“Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late,” Carville wrote. “The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles.”
The Democratic strategist added that the only thing that can “save” his party from its current predicament is “an actual savior.”
“The Democratic Party is steamrolling toward a civilized civil war,” Carville wrote. “It’s necessary to have it. It’s even more necessary to delay it. The only thing that can save us now is an actual savior, because a new party can be delivered only by a person — see Barack Obama in 2008 and Bill Clinton in 1992. No matter how many podcasts or influencer streams our bench of candidates go on, our new leader won’t arrive until the day after the midterms in November 2026, which marks the unofficial-yet-official beginning of the 2028 presidential primary.”