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."JAMES CARVILLE UNLOADS ON FAR-LEFT DEMOCRATS AFTER PRIMARY UPSETS, SAYS ‘YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM’Sen.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Democratic U.S.Senate candidate Graham Platner stood together during a "Fighting Oligarchy" tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus on May 24, 2026, in Orono, Maine.
Platner has recently exited his race after multiple allegations emerged.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)"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 con...