James Carville on Friday said President Donald Trump despises his own Republican voters, and “any kind of rules” that constrain him and the United States itself. He also admitted being “really scared” of the administration’s increasing authoritarianism ahead of future elections.
Trump has made numerous comments about running for a third, unconstitutional term. Bannon, who helped him win the presidency in 2016, added during his interview that there is already a “plan” for 2028 — and called Trump “a vehicle of divine providence.”
“They’re just getting started, and when they start seeing they’re losing, it’s going to get crazier and crazier, and they’re going to redistricting,” Carville said Friday. “If you’re a Republican out there, remember, Trump doesn’t care about you. He hates you.”
“And you better watch out because, you look at the Republican number in these polls, it’s starting to go down a little bit,” he continued, adding Trump “hates the United States. He hates the Republican Party. He hates any kind of system that we have here, any kind of rules.”
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“I hate to be like this, being an old man, but I’m telling you, we’re at a really dangerous point in the United States,” he said Friday. “And I believe that from the bottom of my heart, and a lot of other people I know that are really smart historians … totally agree with me.”
“We’re up against — as a country — we’re up against the wall,” Carville added. “And right now, there is no hope. There is fear. And people are justified to be afraid.”