James Carville on Monday argued that President Donald Trump’s Iran war could prove to be a knockout blow to the Republican Party as the unpopular conflict trudges through its sixth week.
“They hate each other more than they hate us!” the longtime Democratic strategist said of GOP infighting during an interview with MS NOW’s Ari Melber.
“They’re just in some descent of just finger-pointing and that’s just what happens when parties go down. It’s kind of the end of the Republican Party as we knew it. They’re all fighting with each other and that’s fine with me, I’m happy to watch,” he added.
Carville weighed in moments after Melber tossed to a clip of far-right firebrand Alex Jones pouncing on Trump for hurting the economy via the war and cooking up “really bad PR” through his “erratic,” incoherent rhetoric in the process.
“This is a clown show, folks, and I’m really worried,” Jones, who has called to invoke the 25th Amendment on Trump, said in a clip shared to X on Sunday.
The war has sparked further fissures among the right, with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly calling for “accountability” for conservative personalities that cheered on Trump as he launched into the conflict and Tucker Carlson emphasizing the “betrayal” some MAGA voters feel toward Trump over the war.
Elsewhere on the right, Ann Coulter has accused Trump of “committing war crimes” in Iran while ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) slammed the president’s crazed threat toward the country on Easter Sunday.
Carville argued that he doesn’t see Trump, whose average approval rating has been lurking around 40% or lower the past two weeks, “coming back from this.”
The Democratic strategist declared that the “political ground is shifting” under the president and suggested that elections in Wisconsin and Georgia on Tuesday could offer a glimpse of what’s ahead for Republicans in November.
