James Carville on Friday said President Donald Trump despises his own Republican voters, “any kind of rules” that constrain him and the United States itself. He also admitted being “really scared” of the administration’s increasing authoritarianism ahead of future elections.
“I think we’re going to do very well electorally, but I think that’s only going to accelerate their craziness, their thievery, their authoritarianism, their lawlessness,” said the longtime Democratic strategist during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Briefing with Jen Psaki.”
The discussion was largely prompted by comments from former Trump aide Steve Bannon, who told The Economist in an interview published Thursday, “He’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that.”
Trump has made numerous comments about running for a third, unconstitutional term. Bannon, who helped him win the presidency in 2016, added during his interview that there is already a “plan” for 2028 — and called Trump “a vehicle of divine providence.”
“They’re just getting started, and when they start seeing they’re losing, it’s going to get crazier and crazier, and they’re going to redistricting,” Carville said Friday, adding: “If you’re a Republican out there, remember, Trump doesn’t care about you. He hates you.”
“And you better watch out because, you look at the Republican number in these polls, it’s starting to go down a little bit,” he continued, adding Trump “hates the United States. He hates the Republican Party. He hates any kind of system that we have here, any kind of rules.”
Trump began his second term by launching mass deportations. He’s since had masked immigration agents snatch civilians off the street, defied federal judges and launched lethal military strikes on merely suspected drug traffickers in Pacific and Caribbean waters.