Carville trashes Trump – maybe Carville should sit this one out

James Carville, longtime Democrat strategist, wrote a New York Times opinion piece on Jan. 2, 2025, days before Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the White House. Carville said: “We lost for one very simple reason: It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid. We have to begin 2025 with that truth as our political north star and not get distracted by anything else.”

But the day before President Trump’s State of the Union address, Carville sounded distracted. He offered Trump this “personal message”:

“You sit still, you son of a b—h … you fat sorry sack of s—t! … You are the most unpopular president at this point in your term that we’ve ever had. They don’t like you, they don’t like the way you smell, they don’t like the way you look, they don’t like your fat stomach, they don’t like your stupid comb-over!

“There are no silent people out there for you. The only thing you got is a silent but deadly fart! It’s about all you’re good for.

“So, I wish you good health. I hope that you’re cognizant … because I want you to know that you’re experiencing the misery that you’re going through right now, the public humiliation that is happening to you.”

By many measures, the Trump 2.0 economy is doing well. Therefore, as a homicide detective says at a bloody crime scene, “This looks personal.” Does Carville really want to go there?

The crafty Carville served as then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton’s top strategist in the 1992 election. In his 2001 book about standing by Clinton in the face of scandals, Carville described his former boss: “He’s a good man and he has a good heart. He’s not a perfect man, but he is a good man and a great president.”

Clearly, the man Carville worked for and still worships has lived a life a few notches below sainthood:

• An alleged ex-lover and a member of Clinton’s security detail, among others, claimed Clinton routinely described blacks like Jesse Jackson as “n—–s.”

• During the 1992 campaign, Clinton weathered so-called bimbo eruptions, as several accusations of affairs came to light.

• As president, he denied and later admitted an affair with an intern that led to his impeachment.

• Clinton will soon testify before the House Oversight Committee about his lengthy relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader turned wealthy lawyer and businessman, was a close friend of Clinton. Asked what he and the president discussed while playing golf, Jordan said, “We talk p—y.”

Christopher Hitchens, a liberal British author turned Clinton critic, wrote a 1999 book called “No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton.” In an appearance on Bill Maher’s TV show, Hitchens said: “Mr. Clinton is a rapist. OK. Been plausibly, believably accused three times of rape.”

That same year in the left-wing magazine Nation, Hitchens wrote: “It is one thing to say, with reasonable confidence, that the Oval Office is currently occupied by a war criminal, a rapist and a pathological liar.

“I don’t have any male friends who hump the help and then (with the assistance of paid slanderers) call them liars, gold-diggers, sluts and blackmailers. I don’t have any male friends who have been plausibly accused of rape, either, though I do know several women who have been sexually assaulted and decided not to go public. I also know of three other women who could, if they chose, lay a charge of assault against Clinton.”

Is Hitchens’ assessment of Clinton the ravings of a right-wing lunatic? After Hitchens’ death from cancer in 2011 at the age of 62, former Labor Party U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair in a statement said: “Christopher Hitchens was a complete one-off, an amazing mixture of writer, journalist, polemicist and unique character. He was an extraordinary, compelling and colourful human being whom it was a privilege to know.”

Timothy Noah, Hitchens’ fellow columnist and longtime collaborator at the liberal New Republic, wrote: “He was brilliant and often exasperating … even after he started writing for the Weekly Standard (a conservative publication) he remained in many ways a man of the left.”

As for Noah’s liberal bona fides, he quit Twitter, now X, calling the platform “Elon Musk’s propaganda machine.”

So, Mr. Carville, how about we keep this to, “It’s the economy, stupid”?