Perhaps determined to confirm once and for all that there is no longer such a thing as a moderate Democrat, the famed political strategist James Carville recently advised his party that if they obtain a trifecta in Washington, D.C., in 2028, they should try to abolish American politics. “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress,” Carville proposed, “I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico and D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F*** it. Eat our dust.”
These ideas did not occur to Carville ex nihilo. Still, it is rather jarring to hear them from someone who once insisted that “to be a contrarian, you’ve got to be a contrarian against your own people.” At best, Carville is engaging in cheap fan service for his own people. At worst, he has become as unhinged as they are. If indulged, the course of action that he endorses would break our politics and cause dysfunction that would take decades to fix. Does the man have nobody at home who can dig him gently in the ribs?
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