Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson criticized former MSNBC host Chris Matthews and Democratic strategist James Carville during a Tuesday podcast for their ineffective strategy in opposing President Donald Trump.
Hanson’s critique of the two left-wing pundits follows Matthews likening Trump to former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on Friday and Carville suggesting the president could have syphilis following his Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During a diatribe about Democrats’ and corporate media’s resistance to the president on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson particularly honed in on Matthews and Carville for their recent anti-Trump rhetoric.
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“Their only strategy is Trump is a fascist, fascist, fascist. And then we had Chris Matthews, whom I know a little bit, and he thinks, ‘Can’t be Hitler anymore, so I’ll just give an exegesis on Mussolini.’ Yes, Chris, it’s already been used, I’m sorry,” Hanson said. “I think General [Barry] McCaffrey already said [that] when he violated Article 88 back in 2020. He called Donald Trump, I’m pretty sure it was him, he, that called him Mussolini, so you’re late to the party again.”
“Then you have James Carville — he’s the Ragin’ Cajun. He’s reinvented himself at 80 … as the seer, except he’s wrong on everything,” he continued. “He said that, ‘Yeah, Donald Trump’s gonna lose. He’s just a big effing white whale. He’s a weak and effing big fat boy. Ha. [Former Vice President] Kamala Harris is not my favorite — she’s gonna win.’ No, she lost. You were completely wrong about that.”
Carville wrongly forecast that Harris would win the 2024 presidential election in an Oct. 23 New York Times opinion essay titled, “James Carville: Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win.”
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“And then he sees a little bruise on Trump’s, on his right hand, and he doesn’t say to himself, ‘If you were president, and you give as many media appearances and interviews as he does, and you go to rallies, you probably shake in a month five or six thousand hands,” Hanson added. “And you probably get a lot of muscle stressed, torn tissue.”
“So he sees the blotch and then he diagnoses him as tertiary syphilis, syphilitic. So Donald Trump is crazy and he’s a syphilitic. And okay, Mr. Carville, you have no medical knowledge … That’s like saying [former President] Joe Biden has syphilis because according to his diagnosis, Trump is crazy and says crazy things,” he said. “Well then, why is Biden acting that way? And he said, ‘Well, there was Stormy Daniels.’ Well, there was Tara Reade too. So Joe Biden was no chorus boy. So that’s the level of opposition that they have to Trump. And it’s pathetic.”
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Moreover, Hanson condemned the Democrats for how they conducted themselves during Trump’s March 4 congressional address and for their cringe video posted Wednesday that portrayed them as video game characters.
Republican strategist Scott Jennings also criticized Carville in February over his prediction that Trump’s administration would “collapse” within a month. He argued that the Democratic strategist has been in a tailspin ever since his failed election prediction.
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