{"id":946,"date":"2026-07-13T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:12:13","slug":"carvilles-presidential-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Carville\u2019s Presidential History Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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O<\/span>n Saturday former Clinton advisor James Carville took to YouTube and delivered what purported to be a \u201cPresidential History Lesson.\u201d It was a fairly typical Carvillian rant, yet quite revealing about how worried the Democratic establishment is about the damage the DSA insurgency is doing to their party. He begins his diatribe with the 2000 election and insists that every Democrat loss from then on was caused by leftist attacks on the centrist candidates the party nominated. Consequently, George W. Bush won in 2000 because Ralph Nader attacked Al Gore from the left. Likewise, Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders attacked her from the left.<\/p>\n

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As with the alleged theft of the 2000 election by the Supreme Court, Carville is still peddling a tired conspiracy theory unsupported by objective facts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

From there his history lesson ties Nader and Sanders to the current insurgency that the Democratic Socialists have launched and poses the following question: \u201cIs their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No, their solution is to beat Democrats.\u201d He then adds this observation: \u201cThese people are so f*cking stupid, I don\u2019t know what to say about them.\u201d It\u2019s difficult to argue with that assessment, of course, but Carville\u2019s memory of presidential election results from 2000 onward diverges from the facts. For example, he repeats the obligatory canard about the Supreme Court gifting the presidency to George W. Bush by \u201cstopping the recount.\u201d In fact, Gore was never ahead during the first count nor the two recounts.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Carville insists that Ralph Nader received enough support in Florida to permit the judicial theft of the Sunshine State\u2019s electoral college votes: \u201cRehnquist, Scalia, et al. steal the presidential election, of which the media establishment says, well, the court has spoken.\u201d Next he describes how Sanders cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election: \u201cBernie Sanders is the reason that Donald Trump is president \u2026 So he runs the whole time against Hillary on the dreaded massive income growth, the dreaded reality that we\u2019re dealing with in foreign policy, the massive knowledge of knowing what the hell goes on in the world. But no, we got to blow the whole goddamn thing up again.\u201d Yet, as John Sides wrote in the Washington Post<\/em> in 2017:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a perennial question whether supporters of losing primary candidates will vote for their party\u2019s nominee in the general election. So let\u2019s compare the Democratic primary with the Republican primary. In the VOTER Survey, only 3 percent of those supporting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reported voting for Hillary Clinton, as did 10 percent of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio\u2019s supporters and 32 percent of Ohio Gov. John Kasich\u2019s supporters. So, Sanders supporters were as likely to vote for Trump as Rubio\u2019s supporters were to vote for Clinton, and less likely than Kasich supporters were to vote for Clinton.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As with the alleged theft of the 2000 election by the Supreme Court, Carville is still peddling a tired conspiracy theory unsupported by objective facts. \u00a0But he\u2019s not finished with his history lesson: \u201cSince 1992, I think it\u2019s seven elections, I think the Democrats won the popular vote, five, 92, 96, 2004, 12, 16, 20, 24, no, it\u2019s eight. It was six out of eight.\u201d In 1992 and 1996 his client won 43 and 49 percent of the popular vote respectively. In 2000 and 2004 Bush won 48 and 51 percent. In 2008 and 2012 Obama won 53 and 51 percent. In 2016 Clinton won 48 percent to Trump\u2019s 46 percent. In 2020, Biden won 51 percent to Trump\u2019s 47 percent. In 2024 Trump won 50 percent to Harris\u2019s 48 percent. But winning the popular vote isn\u2019t how one becomes President.<\/p>\n

As Carville himself says to the socialist insurgents in his party, \u201cRun in a country with an electoral college \u2026 Run in that country, because that\u2019s the one you live in. It\u2019s not the one that you fantasize about at night. Run in a country where the most important thing to do in an election is to win the thing.\u201d By that standard, Republicans have won 4 of the 7 presidential elections held beginning in 2000. This is why Carville loathes the Social Democrats: \u201cI am a proud liberal. I am not a leftist. I don\u2019t believe you ought to break the thing up.\u201d If Carville really believes that, he needs to check into a TDS rehab facility, stop lying about recent electoral history and help purge the Democratic Party of the useful idiots who are clearly determined to \u201cfundamentally transform\u201d it.<\/p>\n

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