James Carville has always been known for many things, but being subtle isn’t one of them. The Democratic strategist responsible for putting Bill Clinton in the White House is now telling Democrats to cut past the faux-moderate messaging and just downright commit to their radical agenda. Maybe he thought he was just whispering into their ears, but conservatives heard it, and if they’re smart, they could use this as the most honest campaign ad they’ll ever get for completely free of charge.
On a recent episode of the Politicon podcast, Carville laid out the Democratic power agenda straight out for the hosts. What came next was a confession not even AOC, Bernie Sanders, or Zohran Mamdani would dare say out loud on a debate stage.
Carville’s message to the Democrats on the ballot in 2026: a progressive fantasy that your friends voting for Obama in 2008 would tell you “not to worry about.”
If Democrats retake Congress and the White House, he said, they should move immediately to grant statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, adding four reliably Democrat Senate seats overnight. Pack the Supreme Court from nine justices to thirteen, installing four more left-wing activists in lifetime appointments. And reopen the southern border while granting blanket amnesty to every single person who entered this country illegally.
“Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it,” said Carville. “Just do it.”
Carville isn’t some Keith Olbermann, left-wing carnival barker posting to X. This isn’t a right-wing fever dream; we’re talking about one of the most connected, most influential strategists in politics yesterday and today literally telling his colleagues in the Democratic Party to act and say whatever is necessary to win at the ballot box.
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Court-packing, for one, isn’t a reform; it’s a hostile takeover.
A branch even Democrats today say needs to be insulated from political winds is their direct target. During Kamala Harris’s own presidential campaign, she would not publicly state whether or not she would pack the SCOTUS, and her silence was enough for millions of Americans to make a choice on that issue alone.
The moment you can simply add justices until you get the rulings you want, the rule of law ceases to exist. It becomes rule by whoever holds power, and the Democrats are telling you, in plain English, that's exactly the point.
Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico is a smokescreen hiding behind the banner of “representation” too. If it were truly about representation, Democrats would have been screaming about it for decades regardless of the political math. This is about engineering a permanent Senate majority. It's about making elections a formality. It's about locking in control so that no matter how the country votes, the outcome is already decided.
And the border? We've lived that nightmare. We watched it unfold in real time. Carville and his allies want to codify it, not just reopen it, erasing any legal distinction between citizenship and illegal entry. Mass amnesty isn't compassion.
Here's what makes my blood boil: There are people on our side, self-described conservatives, who are out there right now telling voters to sit this one out.
Whether it's frustration with the party, a primary grudge, or some other performative measure, the message is the same: Don't bother voting in the midterms.
I have a message for them: You don't get to stay home, hand them the keys to the kingdom, and then act outraged when they use them.
Carville himself meant it as a blueprint, not a warning.
I've spent my career in newsrooms, on campaigns, and in the boardrooms of organizations fighting for this country's future. I have never, not once, seen a moment where the stakes were laid out clearly and openly by the other side. The only question left is whether conservatives are paying attention.
Michelle Backus is the Spokesperson for Citizens Alliance. You can follow her @MichelleBackus_ on X.
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