James Carville worries about the 'end of the two-party system' as democratic socialists gain popularity

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville and his podcast co-host Al Hunt lamented the rise of radicals in both parties and warned that this may be a sign that the two-party consensus is doomed on Thursday.Carville has been outspoken about condemning the rise of certain democratic socialists who won their primaries in Democratic Party strongholds, to the point where he proposed the party have a schism to keep them out of power.One factor for the radical changes in recent politics, Carville said, is that struggling young people believe that previous generations have utterly failed to help them.Carville argued that while there are some economic struggles, it is nowhere near as dire as young people believe it to be.Talking on "Politics War Room," Carville said that he still believes that the old-guard Democratic pillars of pluralism and a regulated economy with a strong safety net and social insurance is the way for the United States to go, but lamented that younger generations just don’t believe in that vision anymore.JAMES CARVILLE SAYS SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT SHOULDN'T BE IN THE PARTY, CALLS HER VIEWS 'A BRIDGE TOO FAR'James Carville warned that while he still believes in the pillars of traditional Democratic Party politics, many of the younger generation simply don't share that vision anymore.

(Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SCAD)"And it’s a very, very, very taxing time.I mean, the only thing on the horizon that was coming up would be the nomination of a Democratic candidate for president in 2028.

I think that should be it.But I just think the party may have to splinter," he warned.While Carville admitted that he is an elderly man, there are still young people who share his vision of Democratic Party politics, and yet, "People always talk about the end of the two-party system.

We might seem pretty close to the end of it.""There’s certainly no place for anything you would think of as traditional John McCain, Mitt Romney Republicans , because they got nowhere to g...

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