<p>Longtime Democratic Strategist James Carville let loose on his own party in a scathing op-ed, calling it &#8220;constipated,&#8221; &#8220;leaderless,&#8221; and &#8220;a cracked-out clown car&#8221; that was barreling down the road toward a &#8220;civilized civil war.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carville has often taken Democrats to task in recent years – particularly with regard to their obsession with &#8220;wokeness&#8221; — and his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opinion/carville-democrats-midterms-mamdani.html?smid=tw-share">column</a> in Monday&#8217;s edition of The New York Times was no exception.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our party is headed for a civilized civil war. It’s vital that we have it, and even more vital that we delay it,&#8221; Carville teased the column in an X post, acknowledging that there had to be some changes made within his party but calling on the people to try to keep it together at least until after the 2026 midterms.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Our party is headed for a civilized civil war. It’s vital that we have it, and even more vital that we delay it. My latest in <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> <a href="https://t.co/O56YhvtHKY">https://t.co/O56YhvtHKY</a></p>
<p>— James Carville (@JamesCarville) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesCarville/status/1947279293953851599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles,&#8221; Carville wrote.</p>
<p>Carville went on to lay out the divisions made obvious by the rise of Democratic socialists in places like New York City — Queens councilman turned Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, for example — and argued that the party would have to face a reckoning of sorts. It needed to happen, he conceded, but said that it should wait until after the 2026 midterm elections.</p>
<p>The solution, Carville claimed, would come in the form of a &#8220;savior&#8221; — one candidate who could bring about a New Democratic Party that brought both sides together. His assessment was that such &#8220;saviors&#8221; had arisen before in former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Democratic Party is steamrolling toward a civilized civil war. It’s necessary to have it. It’s even more necessary to delay it. The only thing that can save us now is an actual savior, because a new party can be delivered only by a person — see Barack Obama in 2008 and Bill Clinton in 1992,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No matter how many podcasts or influencer streams our candidates go on, our new leader won’t arrive until the day after the midterms in November 2026, which marks the unofficial-yet-official beginning of the 2028 presidential primary contest. No new party or candidate has a chance for a breakthrough until that day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whether or not Carville&#8217;s message will be well-received by Democrats remains to be seen. If former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter is any indication, the likelihood is that it won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>&#8220;James Carville hasn’t won a race in 40 f***ing years,&#8221; the younger Biden said during a recent interview, sharply criticizing any Democrat who&#8217;d conceded that it was time for Joe Biden to bow out. &#8220;[David Axelrod] had one success in his political life and that was Barack Obama and that was because of Barack Obama.&#8221;</p>

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