“Today I am pulling my stool up to the political poker table to throw my chips all in: America, it will all be OK. Ms. Harris will be elected the next president of the United States,” he writes.
Carville lays out the three reasons why he believes this.
One, ”[Donald] Trump is a repeat electoral loser,“ he says, and his presidency set the Republican Party on a similar course; Harris, by contrast, has managed to whip up comparable enthusiasm in just three months of campaigning.
Two, Harris has vastly outraised Trump, even with the $75 million donation the latter just received from his billionaire sidekick, Elon Musk.
Three, Carville simply has a feeling Harris will win, in part because she has aisle-bridging power that her opponent lacks.
“If the Cheneys and AOC get that the Constitution and our democracy are on the ballot, every true conservative and every true progressive should get it too.”
“For the past decade, Mr. Trump has infected American life with a malignant political sickness, one that would have wiped out many other global democracies. On Jan. 6, 2021, our democracy itself nearly succumbed to it,” he writes. “But Mr. Trump has stated clearly that this will be the last time he runs for president. That is exactly why we should be exhilarated by what comes next: Mr. Trump is a loser; he is going to lose again. And it is highly likely that there will be no other who can carry the MAGA mantle in his wake—certainly not his running mate.”
“In two weeks, we not only have a chance to elect Kamala Harris as president, but a chance to bring finality to the sordid career of Donald Trump and drive MAGA into a prolonged remission,” Carville says.
That's from the Beastie Boys. I can't read the original for being behind NYT's paywall. But I did listen to James' conversation on the piece with Al Hunt in which he says,
"Democrats, it's kinda a tie race, and they have lapsed into a profound depression and a depressed party is not a winning party so anything I could do to that kind of depression I'm glad to do it...I think all the things I [wrote in the NYT piece] are valid and true and hopefully they'll all come to fruition." (at 2:01 here)
Which is not certainty, it is, in part, a PEP TALK to Dems. I am one of those Dems resigned to what I truly believe is the inevitable trumpie win, and James' piece and this talk did not change my mind.
