Democrat strategist James Carville is back in the headlines, this time for an astonishingly inflammatory tirade equating those who cooperate with President Trump’s administration to Nazi collaborators in World War II. Speaking on his “Politicon” podcast Friday, the longtime Clinton ally launched into a venomous attack on law firms and corporations doing business with Trump’s White House.
Carville didn’t mince words: “Do you know these collaborators, what the country is going to feel towards collaborators with this regime?” he asked. He then invoked post-liberation France in 1944, a time when accused Nazi collaborators were humiliated, assaulted, and in some cases executed in public.
“It was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris,” Carville said, clearly implying a moral equivalency between those historical atrocities and present-day political cooperation with Donald Trump.
And while Carville made sure to throw in the usual disclaimer—“I’m not saying these people should be placed in pajamas and have their heads shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on”—he immediately followed it up with a disturbing reminder: “That did happen.”
He justified the comparison by claiming that Trump-aligned law firms and corporations are “betraying the United States” the same way French citizens betrayed their nation during Nazi occupation. This is a remarkable assertion, especially coming from someone still treated by the media as a serious political voice.
Let’s be clear: this wasn’t a heated off-the-cuff remark—it was a prepared segment on a podcast. Carville knew exactly what he was doing. He deliberately invoked one of the darkest moments in European history and used it to smear fellow Americans whose only crime is participating in the current administration or doing business in a legal and transparent way.
This is what desperation sounds like. Democrats lost the White House. They lost the Senate. Their policies are being undone, their media allies are flailing, and now their elder statesmen are resorting to ugly historical analogies that suggest Trump’s government is equivalent to fascist tyranny.
The irony, of course, is that this kind of rhetoric only fuels the very populist backlash Democrats claim to fear. Voters who’ve grown tired of lectures from smug elites are unlikely to be swayed by a millionaire political consultant sneering about “collaborators” from his podcast studio. Carville’s comments aren’t just reckless—they’re deeply irresponsible in a climate where political tensions are already sky-high.
And what exactly is Carville suggesting should happen to these supposed “collaborators”? He coyly refuses to say, while also hinting darkly that “their comeuppance” is on the horizon. In other words, don’t act surprised if these folks are targeted, harassed, or worse—because, in Carville’s mind, they had it coming.
At a time when the country is reeling from years of division, comments like these serve no purpose other than to further poison the well. The message to anyone cooperating with the Trump administration is crystal clear: you’re not just wrong—you’re evil. And history, as interpreted by James Carville, will punish you.
The left loves to lecture about unity, tolerance, and civility—until someone disagrees with them. Then the gloves come off, and the Nazi comparisons begin.
Carville’s remarks are a sad reflection of the modern Democrat mindset: when you can’t win the argument, rewrite history—and compare your opponents to monsters.
