James Carville said psychology of foolishness appears to be taking over the Democratic Party in its presidential primaries.
The famous political strategist told MSNBC over the weekend that Sen. Bernard Sanders’ wins in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada are a symptom of political denial on a national scale.
“The entire theory that by expanding the electorate and increasing turnout you can win an election is the equivalent of climate denial,” he said Saturday regarding rhetoric by democratic socialists. “All right? When people say that, they’re as stupid to a political scientist as as a climate denier is to an atmospheric scientist.”
Mr. Carville said it was one thing to vote for the Vermont senator because “you feel good about it” or “you don’t like the banks on Wall Street,” but supporters who predict a sleeping socialist giant will soon awaken and defeat President Trump are delusional.
“If you’re voting for him because you think he’ll win the election because he’ll galvanize heretofore sleeping parts of the electorate, then politically, you’re a fool! And that’s just a fact. It’s no denying it,” he continued. “There’s so much political science, there’s so much research on this, that it’s not it’s not even a debatable question.”
Mr. Carville, a former member of President Bill Clinton’s “War Room,” warned that Democrats are rushing to conclusions about Mr. Sanders before they have “all the fact that they need.”
MSNBC’s Michelle Wallace then said his commentary translated into a warning against “political suicide.”
“It is,” Mr. Carville concluded.
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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