Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville condemned the rising wave of Democratic socialists on Friday, warning that politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., helped pave the way for the rise of politicians like President Donald Trump.
After having condemned far-left ideology for past defeats, Carville has been sounding the alarm once again as a wave of Democratic socialists have won their primaries in Democratic Party strongholds, prompting him to propose a schism within the party to keep from gaining influence.
“The most catastrophic political event of this century, I think,” Carville suggested, “was the election of 2016.”
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“How did Trump win? I’ll tell you how. Because god—n Bernie Sanders is the reason that Donald Trump is president. You hear me? Listen to me. I’m telling you the truth,” Carville said. “So he runs the whole time against Hillary on the dreaded massive income growth, the dreaded reality that we’re dealing with in foreign policy, the massive knowledge of knowing what the hell goes on in the world. But no, we got to blow the whole god—n thing up again.”
He argued that Sanders prevented Hillary Clinton’s electoral victory by “telling working people and people all over Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, places like that, that somehow or another, it was corporatist America. ‘The Democrats are a corporatist party,’ ‘They’re co-opted,’ that ‘there’s no difference between the establishment Democrats and the establishment Republicans.’ Are you kidding me?”
“Then we come to massive criminality,” Carville continued. “We come to trillions of dollars in added debts. We have a jackass war to run. ‘But it’s the Democrats’ fault! It’s the corporate Democrats!’” he said, mocking the rhetoric of far-left, anti-establishment Democrats. “’It’s all because the Democrats listen to Al Gore or some s— like that.”
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“These people are so f—ing stupid, I don’t know what to say about,” he added. “So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats — and what is their solution? Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans?” he asked. “No! Their solution is to beat Democrats, like they’re part of the problem. No! You are part of the problem because you’re a f—ing idiot, and you just believe that pablum nonsense that drifts around the left wing I don’t know whatever sphere, blogosphere, atmosphere, fart-sphere whatever sphere they got.”
“I can’t go back and correct everything these god—n idiots say,” Carville said. “But what I can do is tell you, don’t fall for the allure of false prophets. And all these people — go beat a Republican, then come back and I will respect you. Until you do that, I have nothing but contempt for you.”
He argued that there has been a fundamental shift in many Democrats’ mindset in recent years.
“And somehow or another, among Democrats, something became more important than winning elections. And that became, ‘Oh, I want to feel superior to people. I want to say things that make me sound like I am part of the cool kids.”
“You’re taking the country into the ditch,” he warned. “Into the ditch. That’s what you’re doing.”
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“Every evil moment or s—-y moment that has enjoyed success has also had useful idiots. That is collaborators. That’s right. That’s what you are. Useful idiots,” he said. “Collaborators who are trying to convince people that it’s a systemic problem caused by both parties when, in fact, it’s 97-to-3 by one party. And in this century, if it wouldn’t be for the Democratic left wing, we might not have even had a Republican president. We sure wouldn’t have had one in 2000, and we sure wouldn’t have had one in 2016.”
“I am a proud liberal. I am not a leftist,” he concluded, encouraging Democrats frustrated with the state of modern America to “blame the left wing of the Democratic Party for the catastrophe that we’re facing right now. Because as much as any group, it’s their fault. Thank you.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Sanders for comment and did not immediately receive a response.
