A page from the Democrat 2024 playbook was revealed last week when former Clinton strategist James Carville compared Christian Nationalists with the terrorist group Al Qaeda and accused them of being a "fundamental threat to the United States."
Appearing on Bill Maher's CNN show in a pink USMC hoodie, Carville's comments came during a discussion of Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the house who points to the Bible as the basis for his worldview. The comments are seen as a Democrat strategy to paint Christians as extremists to blunt their impact in the 2024 elections.
"Mike Johnson, and what he believes, is one of the greatest threats we have to date to the United States," Carville said to lively applause from the cable news network audience. "I promise you, I know these people, Christian Nationalists, this is a bigger threat than Al-Qaeda up to this country. This is a fundamental threat to the United States." Directing his arrows at Republicans in Congress, Carville went on: "They don't believe in a Constitution; they'll tell you that. Johnson himself says, What is Democracy? But two wolves and a lamb having lunch. That's what they really, really, really believe. They believe that, and they're coming, and they've been doing it forever, and they're funded, and they probably won't win for a while, but they might. And if they do, the whole country blows up."
Conservatives in the House of Representatives sent speaker Kevin McCarthy packing and selected Johnson, who they believe will help get government spending under control and stop the flood of illegal aliens and illicit drugs flowing into the country from the open southern border. He was immediately targeted by Democrats looking to wrest back control from the GOP, which now holds only a four-seat edge after the ouster of Rep. George Santos. Control of Congress and the White House will be an epic battle, with former President Donald Trump mounting a comeback challenge against President Joe Biden.
According to Carville, "When you look at these Christian Nationalists, and you look at Mike Johnson, you have to understand something, these people are committed; they think Democracy is a sign of weakness, they think Theocracy is the way we should go. These are really, really fanatical people who want to get into every aspect of your freakin' life. Trust me. I'm right."
Host Maher also got in a shot at Johnson: "I read today that he wrote a forward in a book that ascribes to conspiracy theories and homophobic insults. I thought, 'Mike Johnson wrote the forward to the Bible?'"
Pundits on the other side of the aisle were having no part of the anti-Christian discourse. Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy called Carville's comments "political warfare" designed to discredit the Make America Great movement by engaging in the persecution of Christians. "There are 360 million people around the world who are heavily persecuted because they are Christians. And they want to bring it here. Whether Jim Carville is going to acknowledge that or not, I don't know, but that's what he's setting up. It's another lighting of the fires. Marxism, at the end of the day, is what his part is all about. It's about dividing and conquering. We have to understand this threat for what it is. People who want to divide us, people who want to exploit those divisions to take us down."
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| Democrat Strategist James Carville File Photo |
Sam Faddis, a retired CIA operations officer and publisher of And Magazine, called Carville's comments "insane" and "a blatant lie," adding, "Equating these people to terrorists who will commit mass murder is obscene. They are deliberately branding political opponents as domestic violent extremists, and that is not simply rhetoric because it's backstopped by the Department of Homeland Security and moves by the federal government to go after parents who speak out at school board meetings." The government has also taken aggressive action by jailing many of those who participated in the January 6 protest at the Capitol, while declining to prosecute Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters who rampaged through American cities.
According to Faddis, the attack on Christians "establishes the foundation to use intelligence and law enforcement and judicial powers against them because once you have called your enemy a terrorist, you don't just have to defeat them at the ballot box, you can lock them up and imprison them, and obviously we are well down that road. So there's no factual basis; it's madness, but it's madness with a really malevolent purpose."