The Democratic Party's consultant class has completely lost its grip on reality, becoming nothing more than an echo chamber of partisan delusions. Their inability to see anything objectively isn't just pathetic—it's creating golden opportunities for Republicans to capitalize on their willful blindness.
James Carville, once a brilliant political strategist, has descended into outright delusion. Ignoring all evidence, he spent last year’s campaign absurdly insisting Kamala Harris would win—an assertion so detached from reality that even a rookie could see it was nonsense. But Carville’s failure wasn’t just a bad prediction—it was willful deception. Like so many on the left, he chose to feed his side comforting lies rather than face the truth.
"America, it will all be OK. Ms. Harris will be elected the next president of the United States. Of this, I am certain," he predicted in a New York Times op-ed back in October.
And of all people, he should have known better. The man who coined “it’s the economy, stupid” somehow forgot his own lesson, blindly echoing White House spin about a “strong” economy while Americans struggled with soaring costs. In the end, Carville wasn’t just wrong—he betrayed the very instincts that earned him his reputation.
And he hasn’t learned a thing. Appearing on Michael Smerconish's program, Carville actually claimed with a straight face that Trump's second term is already collapsing:
“I had no idea. I thought I'd have to wait longer for the imminent collapse. It happened even faster than I could imagine,” he claimed.
Carville previously claimed in a February New York Times op-ed that support for the Trump administration would collapse quickly. “It won't take long. Public support for this administration will fall through the floorboard. It's already happening.”
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Really, James? Because the actual polling data tells a completely different story. The most reliable pollsters of 2024—Rasmussen Reports, Quantus Insights, and Trafalgar/Insider Advantage—all show Trump with positive approval ratings. Some collapse. I mean, Carville can rely on the pollsters who showed Kamala Harris winning in a landslide if he wants to, but they already made him look like a fool. I’m not sure why he’d trust them again.
But Carville wasn't done embarrassing himself. He went on to declare that Trump's administration represents "the end of the rule of law" and that "we're looking at nincompoops and blockheads and buffoons running the country." This is the kind of unhinged rhetoric that plays well with the progressive keyboard activists but falls flat with actual voters.
The problem extends beyond just Carville. The entire Democrat consultant class served their candidates poorly throughout 2024. Biden's team kept insisting the polls showed he could win. We know that Kamala’s internal polls never showed her beating Trump, but do you think they told her?
Here's the reality: If Democrat consultants continue living in their progressive fantasy land, unable or unwilling to see the world as it actually is, they'll keep steering their party straight into political disasters. And while that might be great news for Republicans, it's a stark reminder of just how far the once-formidable Democratic political machine has fallen.
The consultant class's descent into partisan delusion isn't just a failure of political strategy—it's a complete abandonment of their professional responsibility to provide honest guidance to their party. But hey, at least they're making great money telling Democrats exactly what they want to hear, reality be damned.
