Meanwhile, James Carville Wants To Have A Word

“He has completely decimated the entire diplomatic corps. He’s completely decimated the CIA. The senior military can hardly be in the same room with him. The EPA is an instrument to help polluters, not to regulate polluters.But otherwise I’m a happy camper https://t.co/5W7pAGJTVe

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) February 9, 2020

Some of the best bits:

“The real issues are the Earth is melting. The budget deficit is soaring. People can’t afford prescription drugs. People in the United States can’t talk to each other anymore. Everybody is rude. We’re abandoning every ally we had. We have no idea what we’re doing in the world. We’re making enemies that we don’t need and we’re being friendly with people that we shouldn’t be friendly with, and the level of corruption that’s going on in Washington is at a breathtaking, staggeringly all-time high,” Carville said. “But other than that everything is fine.”

And:

“I fundamentally believe Trump and Trumpism is the most dangerous virus to effect this country since the fall of communism, and I think it has to be beaten badly and decisively at the polls. There is one moral imperative in the world right now, and that’s to get this guy outta there, open an investigation, have him arrested and have him put in jail.”

Couldn't agree more.

“Start doing that,” he said. “Don’t argue about giving illegal people health insurance or felons voting from jail cells. No one gives a crap.”

Except Bernie Bros. and young people to whom these issues really make no difference except as markers of not being their parents (sorry, but somebody has to say it).  Besides, it's about winning in the Senate, too:

“If Amy McGrath is running against Mitch McConnell, do you think she’s going to want Bernie Sanders in Kentucky campaigning with her,” he said. “Do you think Jaime Harrison, who’s running against Lindsey Graham, is going to want Bernie Sanders in South Carolina trying to get a Senate seat?”

“Come on people, get real. We’ve got real work to do here,” Carville said. “We don’t have time for left-wing fantasies in this country. That’s what I think.”

Stop and imagine Bernie Sanders with Mitch McConnell still the Majority Leader.  What happens for 4 years?

“Everyone wants to be a theoretical 188 IQ genius, and me all I’m saying is we ran one play and we went 75 yards and scored a touchdown, then we got back in the huddle and someone said lets run a triple reverse. No! Lets run the same (play) we did,” Carville said. “What’s so (expletive) difficult about this? It drives me nuts. I cannot get it through anyone else’s head.”

And I do love the clueless horse-race question that gets asked by a member of the "press":

Carville also did not pause when asked by Sun Senior Editor Tom Shattuck if he thinks Hillary Clinton may still join the 2020 race. “Hell no,” he exclaimed.

But the best part is how honest he is about Trump.  The only person even trying to approach this level of truth-telling is Mike Bloomberg:

“That we have a career criminal as President of the United States, who is destroying every alliance we have, who is destroying the way that we treat each other, that people who try to influence and mentor young people have no example in the office of the President of the United States. The earth is on fire,” Carville said. “He (Trump) has completely decimated the entire diplomatic corps. He’s completely decimated the CIA. The senior military can hardly be in the same room with him. The (Environmental Protection Agency) is an instrument to help polluters, not to regulate polluters. But otherwise I’m a happy camper.”

Ragin' Cajun is still ragin'.