Democratic strategist James Carville says he could become a Republican under one major condition

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville told Fox News Digital Thursday there is only one unlikely scenario in which he would actually join the Republican Party.Posed with a hypothetical where Republicans had the policies of former President Bill Clinton from the 1990s and the Democratic Party fully embraced socialism, Carville said, “That’s a fantasy, OK, but, yeah, hypothetically, if I — hypothetically I could fly to the moon — it’s about the same chance that that happens.“Well, if the Democrats went crazy and the Republicans went sane, then I probably would be a Republican,” he added.“But I don’t see any evidence that there’s any possibility that the latter could happen.“I think it’s more likely than not that the Democrats embrace sanity,” Carville continued, saying the party’s direction will be determined by Democratic primary voters.In recent months, there has been a rising faction of far-left Democratic candidates in multiple states to the point Carville has suggested there be a schism to keep them out of power.Hasan Piker, a self-described socialist streamer who campaigned with Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, has emerged as a leading voice on the left as democratic socialists gain ground in elections across the country. Piker is known for far-left rhetoric, including previously saying “America deserved 9/11.” After widespread criticism, Piker said in an interview he “obviously” did not mean America deserved the attacks and defended the viral quote as a critique of US foreign policy.“I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker,” Carville said recently on Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing.” “If he becomes a force in a Democratic Party, I’m out of here.

I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with that guy.”Speaking to Fox News Digital on Thursday, Carville addressed what would happen if the socialist faction took over the Democratic Party.“That p...