James Carville Devastated Over the State of US: ‘I Wish Somebody Could Give Me Something to Feel Better’

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The state of the United States is “really, really bad” at the moment, James Carville warned on Thursday’s edition of Politics War Room —and he really wishes someone “could give me something to feel better.”

Carville and co-host Al Hunt were answering questions from listeners toward the end of the episode when a broad question about the “media coverage that favors the fringe” of the Democratic Party was posed.

“So why can’t Democratic politicians look these reporters in the eye or the camera and say, ‘Stop asking me about someone who just won a primary in a district most people will never go to and ask me about the shady deals the administration is running? Ask me about something relevant instead of creating cable news drama,'” said the listener.

“We got one political party in this country that is, for the most part, doesn’t believe in legitimacy,” Carville answered. “And if you come up in journalism, you come up in anything, it’s hard to come to the conclusion that these are… you know these people, you say, ‘Are they bad people?'”

But, he continued, things are grim.

“But we’ve come to a really, really bad place. A really bad place. And it’s just so hard for the country to come to grips with the fact that the Supreme Court, four f*cking people in the Supreme Court, don’t even believe that the 14th Amendment exists. And you got an entire movement in this country that wants to deny the First Amendment. We’re in trouble. I don’t know how to sugarcoat it,” said Carville.

So stories about progressive and Democratic wins are welcome, he concluded, even if they aren’t as relevant to swaths of the country.

“I wish somebody could give me something to feel better about,” Carville concluded. “I hope this election, this is a whole ball of wax,  I think.”

“Well, yeah, that’s what you’ve got to feel good about, the necessity to win that election,” Hunt chimed in.

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