James Carville said during MSNBC’s Tuesday night election coverage that “this election is going to have consequences like you can’t believe.”
“I think this is, if this thing goes where it looks like, where I hope it doesn’t go, people gotta understand, this election is gonna have consequences like you can’t believe,” the Ragin’ Cajun stated. “I was looking at Steve Smith’s presentation, and I think Steve was — if anything — optimistic.”
“Donald Trump now has the authority of an election behind him,” he continued. “It’s the biggest thing that you can have in a democracy. You can’t — this is not an ant septic event. he has the validation of the people. He said what he was running on, and it was pretty clear what he was offering.”
Carville explained that he’s “distraught about the entire thing.”
“I feel terrible for a lot of my friends, but what is here tonight is hard to put into perspective,” he added. “We’re going to have one party ruling this country, and Obamacare is done. Dodd Frank is done. The diplomatic and financial consequences — I’m looking at the futures — they’re going to go further.”
“It’s hard to imagine what this means. There’s no sense in sugar-coating it for people… If you just look at what it is, I hate to say it, but I hope, please, God let me be wrong.”