James Carville, the Ragin’ Cajun, famously has a temper — hence the nickname. But he has long been regarded as an old-guard, pragmatic, victory-minded Clintonite Democrat. He has occasionally lashed out at the woke excesses of his party’s left flank, usually on the grounds that its extreme stances and rhetoric are electorally unhelpful.
These days, count Carville among the radicals.
As longtime GOP operative Josh Holmes has taken to observing lately, “there’s no such thing as a moderate Democrat.” Carville exemplifies the phenomenon. In a fit of pique last year, the old-school strategist appeared to embrace the radical idea that the next time Democrats control Washington, they should bust the Senate filibuster to add two reliably blue states to the union, and therefore four automatic or likely Democratic Senate seats, as a means of more permanently locking their political opposition out of power. He added that under those circumstances, his party “may”
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