{"id":190,"date":"2025-02-25T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:38:14","slug":"james-carville-republicans-imploding-in-midst-of-a-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"James Carville &#8211; Republicans imploding, in midst of a collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3cccdbf200c-300wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11066\" title=\"Carville\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the NY Post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/23\/us-news\/james-carville-predicts-trump-republicans-are-in-the-midst-of-a-collapse\/?utm_source=youtube&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost\">Carville, 80, on Friday urged his fellow Democrats to play \u201cpossum,\u201d stay out of the way and let Republicans implode as President Trump plows ahead with his dramatic overhaul of the federal government. \u201cWhat I have said very publicly is that Democrats need to play possum. This whole thing is collapsing,\u201d Carville mused to Mediaite founder Dan Abrams.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The veteran Dem guru was the top strategist in Bill Clinton\u2019s 1992 campaign when Democrats soared back into the White House after 12 years of Republican rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***********************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carville, who confidently proclaimed in October he was \u201ccertain Kamala Harris will win\u201d and wrote a book in 2009 about how <a data-ga4-event=\"{&quot;event_name&quot;:&quot;ux_engagement&quot;,&quot;source_unit&quot;:&quot;amazon&quot;,&quot;source_position&quot;:100}\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/r.nypostlink.com?btn_ref=org-19984c113c692001&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F40-More-Years-Democrats-Generation%2Fdp%2F1416569898%3Ftag%3Dnypost-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2025%2F02%2F23%2Fus-news%2Fjames-carville-predicts-trump-republicans-are-in-the-midst-of-a-collapse%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dems would be the dominant party<\/a> over the next 40 years, decried progressive hardliners who have a knack for being noisy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese people were just useless,\u201d he moaned about certain progressive activist groups during the last election cycle. \u201cThey\u2019re actually worse than useless, they\u2019re detrimental. And they never, ever learn to shut up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*******************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citing polling data, Carville argued that Trump\u2019s approval rating has been taking a nosedive and that within a matter of weeks, Republicans will be almost completely hobbled in Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*****************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be easy pickings here in six weeks,\u201d Carville added, addressing Democrats. \u201cJust lay back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of a collapse. It\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Post. Carville, 80, on Friday urged his fellow Democrats to play \u201cpossum,\u201d stay out of the way and let Republicans implode as President Trump plows ahead with his dramatic overhaul of the federal government. \u201cWhat I have said very publicly is that Democrats need to play possum. This whole thing is collapsing,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11067,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/11067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}