The unhinged mask of the Democratic resistance just slipped further, exposing a veteran operative’s bloodlust for medieval-style vengeance against anyone daring to work with President Donald Trump.
James Carville, the 80-year-old veteran Democratic strategist, laid out his "fantasy dream" for post-Trump retribution during Wednesday’s episode of his Politics War Room podcast.
Co-host Al Hunt joined the discussion on the administration’s push to reward universities that end anti-conservative bias.
Carville branded compliant schools "collaborators" and envisioned their punishment after Trump leaves office in 2029.
"You know what we do with collaborators?" Carville said. "My fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029. I think we ought to have radical things. I think they all ought to have their heads shaved."
He detailed the spectacle.
"They should be put in orange pajamas and marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public should be invited to spit on them," Carville continued. "All of these collaborators should be shaved, pajama-clad, and spat on."
Hunt asked, "Disney and Paramount?" — citing Paramount’s reported $16 million settlement with Trump and Disney’s brief suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
"Yeah, I don’t disagree," Hunt said.
Carville expanded his target list.
"The universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed, and spit on," he said. "I’m not talking about corporations like Lockheed," Carville said, focusing on entities that "chose to bend the knee to this guy."
Punishment, he argued, deters future compliance.
"The idea is you have to pay more because you did this, because it is the only way that you’re going to discourage future collaborators in the United States," he said. "It’s a moral judgment."
Carville justified the vision by labeling Trump a despot.
"If you bend a knee to a criminal tyrant — and that’s what he is — understand: he is a criminal," Carville said. "Thirty-four convictions would have been a lot more if they had pursued them. He is a tyrant. He has no use for democracy. He has no use for the values of this country. You are collaborating with this, and it will bring eternal shame to your company."
He called Trump a "tinpot tyrant," accused the administration of eroding democratic norms and showing "disdain for the rule of law," and urged voters to "defend democracy."
In April, Carville likened Trump cooperation to Nazi collaboration, referencing 1944 Paris street violence against collaborators.
"I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their head shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on," Carville said then. "I’m not saying that, but I’m saying that that did happen."
Six months later, he dropped the pretense.
Carville has repeatedly framed Trump’s term as existential peril, calling it “the most serious crisis that this country has ever faced" and claiming "the entire idea of the United States is in jeopardy."
In March on CNN, he accused Trump of "actively trying to destroy”" America because "it’s possible he hates our country."
Last week on MSNBC, Carville declared the Supreme Court illegitimate, saying justices "could care less about the Constitution" and branding the court "an adjunct to the Republican Party."
The swamp’s elder statesman isn’t hiding his authoritarian fever dream anymore — he’s scripting the sequel to revolutionary France, starring orange jumpsuits and public spittle for anyone who refuses to join the resistance mob.
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