James Carville And His Cadre Are Not Being Subtle About Their Plan To Upheave Democracy

It’s ironic that after months of hearing how President Donald Trump is a tyrant, a dictator, a fascist, and that his presidency marks the end of the free world as we know it, Democrats would openly discuss upending democratic norms and institutions to consolidate power in their post-Trump “new era.”

James Carville, the political pundit who looks like he wandered out of a Tim Burton film, just screamed the quiet part aloud. “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico and D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F*ck it. Eat our dust,” he said on a podcast released Thursday. “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”

This isn’t a new tactic. He’s just not hiding it anymore. This old Clinton advisor is sick of Republicans, the evil villains they are, holding power, so he’s telling his colleagues to run as moderates, act like team players, and then, once in office, to radicalize, tear down institutions, seize power, and never relinquish it. That’s the play. Game over.

When Carville says, “make D.C. and Puerto Rico states,” most people don’t realize how loaded that is. The Senate gives every state exactly two senators regardless of population. That was the Founders’ genius firewall, protecting smaller, rural, and conservative-leaning places from being steamrolled by massive liberal cities. Making D.C. (a federal district that has voted 90% Democrat since forever) and Puerto Rico (another Democrat-leaning territory) into states instantly hands Democrats four automatic new senators and additional House seats, flipping the Senate into a permanent blue lock. Not earned. Automatic.

The Constitution never intended the capital, kept under direct congressional control for a reason, to become a state. By the way, if either of these jurisdictions leaned right, we would not be having this conversation. Democrats would throw their bodies in front of a speeding freight train to stop Republicans from getting anywhere near that kind of power.

With permanent Senate control comes permanent judicial control. The Supreme Court sits at 6-3 conservative right now, and it has done an incredible job protecting Americans’ rights on guns, parental authority, and freedom from regulatory overreach. Once those justices retire, a Democrat-controlled Senate would never confirm another conservative. Americans would be at the mercy of Ketanji Brown Jackson and company, which is more terrifying than Kamala Harris with a microphone after a glass of rosé.

That conservative Court has blocked radical progressive overreach time after time. It saved the Second Amendment, protected vulnerable children, struck down unconstitutional mandates, and kept the administrative state from running wild. Hand Democrats a 7-2 or 8-1 liberal majority, and every one of those protections evaporates overnight. Nationwide abortion on demand, gun confiscation, open borders codified into law, and a federal government free to regulate every inch of your life. Everything would go to hell in a handbasket, and there would be no off-ramp.

Statehood isn’t even the whole play. Democrats in Virginia, Illinois, Maryland, New York, and California are already redistricting, packing Republican voters into a handful of super-safe GOP districts while slicing conservative neighborhoods thin across Democratic ones, creating maps that look drawn by a blind, drunk cartoonist. This guarantees they’ll lock down the House too — no matter how many votes conservatives actually win nationwide.

Carville’s strategy is to run moderate, govern radically, and don’t tip your hand until it’s done. The gerrymandering already underway proves they aren’t waiting around.

They’re not stopping at redistricting either. As Matthew Hennessey laid out in his Wall Street Journal piece, Democrats are already leaking decade-old Supreme Court memos to the New York Times and spinning conservative justices as sneaky, petty, planet-hating partisans — deliberately ruining public trust in the current 6-3 Court so Americans will be more willing to swallow court-packing when the time comes.

James Carville can keep cackling “F*ck it. Eat our dust” like some bald-headed villain, but this isn’t a bold Democratic power play. It’s a naked confession that they’ve lost faith in actually winning over the American people. Stack the Senate with automatic blue seats, pack the Court to erase its conservative firewall, redraw House maps until they look like abstract art, and saddle taxpayers with billions in new debt and welfare costs that bankrupt Puerto Rico can’t handle even now — and suddenly the “threat to democracy” they screamed about for eight straight years becomes their permanent business model.

James Madison saw this coming in Federalist 47. President Ronald Reagan warned us about it every day of his public life. When one party has to rig the rules, the districts, and the judiciary just to stay in charge, they don’t believe in self-government anymore. They believe in ruling. Forever. The same people who called Donald Trump a fascist dictator are now openly engineering the constitutional off-ramp that would make actual tyranny look subtle.

So no, we won’t eat your dust.

We see the game. We see how close we are to the edge. This time, the good guys aren’t going to sit on the sidelines while evil walks through the front door wearing a smile and calling it “progress.” 

Get off X, get off the couch, and fight at every ballot box, school board, and statehouse, because freedom really is one generation from extinction, and the generation that lets Carville’s crew shatter these last firewalls will be the one that hands their kids a republic in name only.

Game over for them… if we decide it is.