There’s a tired playbook the left never seems to tire of running, and it was on full display with the recent handwringing over President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill. The usual suspects—Democrat strategists and their media mouthpieces—wasted no time predicting doom… for the GOP.
“Stupid politicians punish their voters,” Paul Begala said earlier this month. “This bill is a political suicide note for the Republican Party.”
He added, “Last time they tried this, the Democrats won 41 House seats after Trump's first midterm. They'll exceed that this time, 489 days. They'll do better than 41 seats. This is absolute death knell for the, for the House Republicans—maybe the Senate too.”
James Carville, ever the Democratic attack dog, declared earlier this week CNN that Trump’s bill would be a “mass extinction event” for Republicans, all but guaranteeing a Democratic landslide in the next midterms. According to Carville, “Political anthropologists are going to look back at this, and it’s going to be called a mass extinction event because there are a lot of them are going to be extinct.”
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Ask yourself why Democrat strategists such as Paul Begala and James Carville were suddenly so eager to give Republicans advice. They weren’t warning the public—they were running a pressure campaign aimed squarely at GOP lawmakers. The goal was simple: spook just enough Republicans into thinking their political careers were on the line if they supported the bill. This is how the Democrat consultant class operates. They don’t win policy debates—they spread panic, flood the airwaves with doom, and hope a few weak-kneed Republicans fold. It’s classic D.C. playbook stuff: invent a crisis, pump it through the media echo chamber, and wait for someone to flinch.
So why try? Because they know the bill isn’t the suicide pact they claim it is. They’re terrified it might actually work—and that’s the real threat to their power.
Carville’s rhetoric is a classic case of projection. He predicted a 40-seat pickup in the House for Democrats.
This is the same guy who didn’t just predict Kamala Harris would win the 2024 presidential election—he guaranteed it. "America, it will all be OK. Ms. Harris will be elected the next president of the United States. Of this, I am certain," he wrote in a New York Times op-ed back in October.
Yeah, so Carville has a bit of a credibility problem. Frankly,
This isn’t the first time Democrats have tried to scare Republicans out of supporting conservative policy. Remember the 2017 tax cuts? The left said they’d destroy the economy and doom the GOP. Instead, the country saw historic growth and record-low unemployment.
The reality is that the left’s predictions are always conveniently tailored to whatever fight is at hand. When they’re out of power, every Republican initiative is a “disaster” that will “destroy the party,” and whatever legislation is being pushed is the equivalent of party signing its own death warrant.
The key takeaway here is this: The left’s panic is a sign that the Republican Party is on the right track.
