During an episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” James Carville, a Democrat and political strategist, expressed his opinion that Speaker Mike Johnson and other “Christian nationalists” are a bigger threat to America than al-Qaeda. In a more recent rant posted on X, Carville urged young people to recognize the potential dire consequences of not voting for Biden in this year’s November election, at least as he sees it:
If Trump, and Roberts, and Alito, and Gorsuch, and Thomas, and Leonard Leo, and the Heritage Foundation — if they get a hold [of power], there will be no government left, there will be no rights left, you will live under theocracy, you’ll end up [with] Christian Nationalism. My advice to tell these young people is to get off your motherf**king a** and go vote because you should vote like your entire future, and the entire future of this United States depends on it because, quite frankly, it does, and that’s not an exaggeration.
Carville is not alone in employing this divisive and vitriolic rhetoric. President Biden and many other Democrat politicians have repeatedly stated that the Republican Party of today, led and influenced by Donald Trump, is “a threat to this country” and has continuously called “MAGA extremists” a “threat to the brick and mortar of our democratic institutions.”
This demonization of Republicans as an existential threat that must be completely vanquished from American politics altogether is now commonplace rhetoric for even supposedly centrist Democrats such as Carville
