Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville argued on Thursday that there seems to be a trend of less and less outspoken support for President Donald Trump, to the point where those left must be “world-class” buffoons.
As Carville and his co-host Al Hunt read through listener questions on their “Politics War Room” podcast, one homeowner from rural Texas commented, “One thing noticeable is the Trump flags and signs are few and far between. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think these people are going to turn blue, but could this indicate lower turnout and less enthusiasm in the midterms?’”
“I really agree with Kay,” Carville replied. “I think anecdotal evidence, when it piles up, you just can’t discard it. And I have a little bit of the same experience she does.”
Carville elaborated that he is currently in south Mississippi, and on trips to Walmart a year ago, people would recognize him and say, “‘Hey man, I love my guy Trump. Why don’t you get behind him?’ Or something like that. Not overly threatening or rude.”
“I never hear that anymore! I never see that!” Carville claimed. “And you used to see, like, Trump merch stands on Highway 90, or you would see them go ride around downtown in pickup trucks and Trump flags and everything. I haven’t seen that since the year turned.”
“I think what you’re seeing is indicative of something. Look, are these people going to miraculously turn into Democrats overnight? No,” he said, mirroring the listener’s comment. “But are they going to really run up the margin in rural Texas as they’ve done previously? No, I don’t think so. That’s why I’m pretty encouraged by it.”
He asserted again that such anecdotes carry weight when they become a trend, saying, “And I do think visibility does matter. And if you observe it over a length of time, and it continues in one direction, I think it’s saying something. And I think our friend in Texas is picking up on something smart.”
Earlier in the podcast, Carville blasted people in Trump’s inner circle as “buffoons,” but said the thing that truly makes him upset is that while he can understand why people voted for him in 2024, he cannot understand those still supporting him in 2026.
“My rage is this, is the people that are still for Trump. Okay, half the country voted for him on Election Day 2024. I hear all kinds of justifications,” he said. “I mean, I certainly disagreed with it, but I think there are actually some well-meaning, smart people that actually voted for Trump in November 2024.”
“If you’re still for Trump, you are a world-class buffoon,” he said. “Everything that he told you he cared about and was going to do, he’s done none of it. He didn’t focus on the American people or focus on anything. The only thing this man is focused on is making money.“
“It’s the outrage of this century that he’s there and 36% of the American public approves of the job he’s doing,” he suggested.
“It’s not beyond me how you ended up voting for Trump in 2024. I profoundly disagree with it. But people make decisions that I disagree with all the time,” he concluded. “If you’re still for him, you yourself are outrage, you’ve got to reexamine your life, because there’s something wrong with it.”
“James Carville is a stone-cold loser who suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it has rotted his peanut-sized brain,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital when reached for comment.
