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As has been made shockingly clear since the assassination of peaceful activist Charlie Kirk, Democrats now don’t even bother to rein in rhetoric that celebrates and incites violence against their political opponents, whom they justify hating and killing by declaring them fascists and Nazis. Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville’s recent outburst, for example, demonstrates that they are ready to bring back the most disturbing excesses of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Wednesday on his Politics War Room podcast, the 80-year-old cadaverous crank Carville unleashed a chilling vision for retribution against those he deems “collaborators” with President Donald Trump. “You know what we do with collaborators?” Carville asked co-host Al Hunt while discussing the Trump administration’s higher-education reforms. Trump has moved to reward colleges that commit to ending institutional practices targeting conservative viewpoints.
“My fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029,” Carville continued:
I think we ought to have radical – I think they all ought to have their heads shaven. They should be put in orange pajamas and should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public should be invited to spit on them. The universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed, and spit on.
Carville clarified that he wasn’t referring to long-standing defense contractors like Lockheed or firms already tied to government work, emphasizing that his anger was directed at those who “chose to bend the knee to this guy.”
“The idea is you have to pay more because you did this, because it is the only way that you’re going to discourage future collaborators in the United States,” he added. “It’s a moral judgment.” He went on to condemn Trump as “a tyrant” who “has no use for democracy. He has no use for the values of this country. You are collaborating with this, and it will bring eternal shame to your company.”
In April, Carville had compared cooperation with the Trump administration to Nazi collaboration during World War II, invoking the August 1944 liberation of Paris when French citizens violently turned on collaborators in the streets. At that time, Carville said coyly, “I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their head shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on. I’m not saying that, but I’m saying that that did happen.”
Six months later, Carville has apparently changed his mind or decided to be more honest about his totalitarianism.
This is not some unknown, fringe radical blowing off steam on social media. James Carville has been one of the most (inexplicably) respected Democrat strategists for decades. He is a constant guest on Left-wing media, where he is given full, unchallenged rein to unload his often profane, opinionated rants. And this was not rare hyperbole on his part, either; Carville spews demonizing propaganda every time he opens his mouth. Earlier this year, for example, the Democrat pundit warned Trump’s second term was “the most serious crisis that this country has ever faced” and claimed “the entire idea of the United States is in jeopardy.” In March, he went further on CNN, suggesting Trump is “actively trying to destroy” the United States because “it’s possible he hates our country.”
But even by Carville’s low standards, his latest comment is a shockingly vicious blueprint for humiliation that evokes the darkest chapters of totalitarian history, particularly the Chinese Cultural Revolution. His “fantasy” betrays a sick impulse that is intrinsic to Left-wing politics—an intolerant hatred that views political opponents not as fellow Americans but as enemies to be crushed.
To grasp the depravity of Carville’s proposal, one must first confront its visceral imagery. Heads forcibly shaven, bodies clad in the garish orange of prison garb, victims paraded through the streets of Washington like criminals in a dystopian spectacle, pelted with spittle from a jeering mob. This is not the language of democratic debate; it is the theater of vengeance, designed to break spirits and deter dissent through terror. Carville justifies it as a “moral judgment” to “discourage future collaborators,” echoing the very logic of inquisitors who rationalized torture as societal hygiene.
Invoking such rituals, he channels the mass persecutions of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), where ideological purity was enforced through public shaming and ritualized abuse. During that cataclysmic decade, Chinese intellectuals, officials, and ordinary citizens labeled as “counter-revolutionaries” were subjected to “struggle sessions.” These were brutal public interrogations where victims were forced to confess fabricated sins, endure beatings, and suffer degradations like head-shaving and parading in dunce caps or tattered clothing while crowds hurled insults, stones, and excrement.
The abuse heaped upon those persecuted in the Cultural Revolution was not mere spectacle; it was a systematic engine of terror that claimed an estimated 500,000 to 2 million lives and scarred generations. Families were torn apart as children denounced parents, and “enemies of the people” were driven to suicide or madness. Consider the case of revered author Lao She, who in 1966 was dragged to a Beijing park, forced to kneel, and beaten—his “crime” being insufficient Maoist fervor. Lao She is believed to have drowned himself in a canal, having been unable to rid himself of the shame and humiliation. Or the countless academics and artists whose heads were shorn, bodies daubed with ink, and marched through streets amid cries of “Down with bourgeois dogs!”
These rituals purged perceived threats and enforced conformity through fear. The public nature of the abuse turned personal humiliation into collective catharsis for the mob. Carville’s fantasy transplants this Maoist playbook to America’s capital, substituting Trump for the targeted “Four Olds” – old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits – and corporate executives for intellectuals. In both, the “collaborator” label justifies extrajudicial cruelty, erasing the line between political disagreement and existential enmity.
Carville’s – and the Democrat Party’s –intolerant hatred of their opponents is the real threat to the republic. Unless we can purge that from the political landscape and – like Charlie Kirk – reaffirm that reclaiming our greatness lies in dialogue, not degradation, then our ongoing hot civil war can only escalate.
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The irony is that in the West, it is the academics and artists who revere Mao.
Carville is a stunningly unattractive personality. Not just his physical appearance, but the arrogance, bullying, uncouth loudmouth. Somehow he is (or was) useful to the Democrats, but I’ll be darned if I can figure it out.
Gollum with glasses and a baseball cap
Say it loud! And say it proud! No matter how insane it is- scream it, holler it, and yell it as loudly and proudly as you can. Just be sure to repeat it often.
Surprisingly that is working for him and his misguided flock of brainless middle class women, ancient hippies and declining ranks of people of color.
He’s a bald headed retard.
James Jiminy Cricket Carville has complained that Democrats were too much to the left to win elections. His criticism was transactional, considering only results, not the value of policy to the people. Now, he wants to go so far to the left that if Democrats regain power, they should not let the political competition exist to ever get elected again.
These people never forget being ostracized in ninth grade. They were correctly declared useless by their peers. They have lived up to the label.
This is precisely what the Left has been doing metaphorically to the American experiment in liberty.
The left shames individuals that have values by using names and they tag them with these: islamaphobe, homophobe, transphobe, right wing extremist, bible thumper, gun nut and a myriad of other words and names they use to try and tag names on those with conservative views. It’s the same thing mao did. It really started coming into play during the Obama reign.
How about struggle sessions for Democrats who are “forced to kneel and beaten—their “crimes” being insufficient MammiDammi fervor.” Carville could stand there in his Maoist black pajamas pounding his Islamo/Leftist alliance drums.
Sounds like the left is going backwards to the days of witch trials and persecutions. It’s like you can never kill a terrible idea.
Old Snake Head is his name.
Gollum doppelganger Carville squeals for Cultural Revolution style public humiliation torture of political enemies. This is the sexual fantasy of every leftist who ever lived. Sexual sadism fuelled by envy, self-loathing and revenge is at the root of all leftism. It’s beyond cringe to witness this pustulant Democrat corpse giddily spew its macabre and cruel psychosexual masturbation fantasies in public. But it’s the perfect advertisement for free euthanasia services for useless eater leftists. One quick shot of phenobarbital for Baldo Skeletor live on MSNBC might inspire his No King’s geriatric rebels without a clue devotees to all go out together in a blaze of leftist glory.
This is who this guy has always been he has been a master of disguise, like his former client Bill Clinton Go away James!
A now hate-filled, angry old man, extremely bitter about the apparent failure of his life’s efforts,
BTW, for a real first-person story of the cultural revolution in China, read Fan Shen’s “Gang of One.” A truly amazing read.
Bertolucci’s film gave an honest view – THE LAST EMPEROR.
FAREWELL, MY CONCUBINE gave an honest view of China’s darkest years. A very fine movie.
The DIMs being grade school hall monitors who never grew up dream of a time when they can punish all those who did not agree with them.
Jean-Luc Godard’s “The Chinese” (1967 “La Chinoises” French with English subtitles) depicts fictional white French radical Maoist students of 1967 planning their own Cultural Revolution. Also Godard’s “Sympathy for the Devil” (1968 English) depicts more white French student Maoists ranting and doing struggle sessions. This is intercut with scenes of fictional scary black power revolutionaries proclaiming communist anti-white manifestos while shooting white women. This is intercut with scenes of the Rolling Stones recording their song “Sympathy for the Devil”. Both Godard movies show the far left Maoist young precursors of today’s Antifa and woke college far left Hamas-loving radicals. A case of history repeating exactly.
The left is driven by Nietzsche’s idea of Ressentiment: “a concept in philosophy that refers to a sense of hostility or resentment toward an object [person, society, etc.] that one blames for one’s frustration.” The purpose of life for leftists is to exterminate non-leftists who they blame for all personal and political problems. In the 1960s the left tried to piggyback blacks to make revolution — both failed. In the 2020s, islam is the left’s ticket to complete societal destruction — and this time they’re both succeeding. Prepare for violence on a mass scale.
Mao was far worst then Hitler was and was far worst Mass Murderer and tell PETA about his Campaign Against Sparrows and anyone who honors Mao is a total fool
The Biden error was a Cultural Revolution.
Carville and Senator Murphy are drinking buddies and they are drinking from morning till morning.
The other Jimmuh must have missed that.
If you want to see either Patriotism or violence, I’ll host you in Chicago. I’m a 1630 Winthrop Fleet descendent, which makes me more American than just about anyone aside from the Mayflower crew, by J.D. Vance’s standards, and even I got tear gassed for being at the wrong Mexican grocery store at the wrong time. Meanwhile, everyone in Chicago is hanging American flags and homemade anti-ICE posters side-by-side. I encourage tiny Mark Tapson and the stay-at-home “journalists” of FPM to quit playing the victim, to get out of their basements, and to actually visit one of the cities that they so loathe.
“Inside every Progressive Is a totalitarian screaming to get out”
—David Horowitz
The Geico gecko’s evil twin is just making noise to grab attention. His desperate attempt to stay relevant won’t work. Today’s communist democrats won’t be coming to him for advice. He’s old news.
If radical , Marxist Dems ever get true power anyone they in their perverse minds feel is disloyal will be pursued, purged and worse. Bet on it.
Carville sets his ‘sails’ in accordance with the prevailing ‘winds’. Which in his party, the hard left woke cultural Marxists currently determine. Of such as he were the operators of the guillotine during the French terror. Fortunately, they face a heavily armed public. “Those the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
I want to know when the arrests of these seditious monsters is going to occur. They weaponized the powers of government against Trump and us. Does President Trump realize what is going to happen to the America he loves if and when the democrats regain total power in Washington? We all thought he understood the danger this nation is in, yet, I dont see the fire inside of him and the institutions that the republicans control. This is urgent and we are nearly one year done into his 4 years. We are running out of time. Focusing on the Ballroom? Thats rearranging the Titanic deck chairs. When’s the fire coming?