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Bringing Back the Cultural Revolution - James Carville fantasizes about humiliating “collaborators.”
Front Page Magazine ^ | 27 Oct, 2025 | Mark Tapson

Posted on 10/27/2025 6:20:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As has been made shockingly clear since the assassination of peaceful activist Charlie Kirk, Democrats now don’t even bother to rein in rhetoric that celebrates and incites violence against their political opponents, whom they justify hating and killing by declaring them fascists and Nazis. Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville’s recent outburst, for example, demonstrates that they are ready to bring back the most disturbing excesses of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Wednesday on his Politics War Room podcast, the 80-year-old cadaverous crank Carville unleashed a chilling vision for retribution against those he deems “collaborators” with President Donald Trump. “You know what we do with collaborators?” Carville asked co-host Al Hunt while discussing the Trump administration’s higher-education reforms. Trump has moved to reward colleges that commit to ending institutional practices targeting conservative viewpoints.

“My fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029,” Carville continued:

I think we ought to have radical – I think they all ought to have their heads shaven. They should be put in orange pajamas and should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public should be invited to spit on them. The universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed, and spit on.

Carville clarified that he wasn’t referring to long-standing defense contractors like Lockheed or firms already tied to government work, emphasizing that his anger was directed at those who “chose to bend the knee to this guy.”

“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 added. “It’s a moral judgment.” He went on to condemn Trump as “a tyrant” who “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.”

In April, Carville had compared cooperation with the Trump administration to Nazi collaboration during World War II, invoking the August 1944 liberation of Paris when French citizens violently turned on collaborators in the streets. At that time, Carville said coyly, “I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their head shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on. I’m not saying that, but I’m saying that that did happen.”

Six months later, Carville has apparently changed his mind or decided to be more honest about his totalitarianism.

This is not some unknown, fringe radical blowing off steam on social media. James Carville has been one of the most (inexplicably) respected Democrat strategists for decades. He is a constant guest on Left-wing media, where he is given full, unchallenged rein to unload his often profane, opinionated rants. And this was not rare hyperbole on his part, either; Carville spews demonizing propaganda every time he opens his mouth. Earlier this year, for example, the Democrat pundit warned Trump’s second term was “the most serious crisis that this country has ever faced” and claimed “the entire idea of the United States is in jeopardy.” In March, he went further on CNN, suggesting Trump is “actively trying to destroy” the United States because “it’s possible he hates our country.”

But even by Carville’s low standards, his latest comment is a shockingly vicious blueprint for humiliation that evokes the darkest chapters of totalitarian history, particularly the Chinese Cultural Revolution. His “fantasy” betrays a sick impulse that is intrinsic to Left-wing politics—an intolerant hatred that views political opponents not as fellow Americans but as enemies to be crushed.

To grasp the depravity of Carville’s proposal, one must first confront its visceral imagery. Heads forcibly shaven, bodies clad in the garish orange of prison garb, victims paraded through the streets of Washington like criminals in a dystopian spectacle, pelted with spittle from a jeering mob. This is not the language of democratic debate; it is the theater of vengeance, designed to break spirits and deter dissent through terror. Carville justifies it as a “moral judgment” to “discourage future collaborators,” echoing the very logic of inquisitors who rationalized torture as societal hygiene.

Invoking such rituals, he channels the mass persecutions of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), where ideological purity was enforced through public shaming and ritualized abuse. During that cataclysmic decade, millions of Chinese intellectuals, officials, and ordinary citizens labeled as “counter-revolutionaries” were subjected to “struggle sessions” These were brutal public interrogations where victims were forced to confess fabricated sins, endure beatings, and suffer degradations like head-shaving and parading in dunce caps or tattered clothing while crowds hurled insults, stones, and excrement.

The abuse heaped upon those persecuted in the Cultural Revolution was not mere spectacle; it was a systematic engine of terror that claimed an estimated 1 to 2 million lives and scarred generations. Families were torn apart as children denounced parents, and “enemies of the people” were driven to suicide or madness. Consider the case of revered author Lao She, who in 1966 was dragged to a Beijing park, forced to kneel, and beaten—his “crime” being insufficient Maoist fervor. Lao She is believed to have drowned himself in a canal, having been unable to rid himself of the shame and humiliation. Or the countless academics and artists whose heads were shorn, bodies daubed with ink, and marched through streets amid cries of “Down with bourgeois dogs!”

These rituals purged perceived threats and enforced conformity through fear. The public nature of the abuse turned personal humiliation into collective catharsis for the mob. Carville’s fantasy transplants this Maoist playbook to America’s capital, substituting Trump for the targeted “Four Olds” – old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits – and corporate executives for intellectuals. In both, the “collaborator” label justifies extrajudicial cruelty, erasing the line between political disagreement and existential enmity.

Carville’s – and the Democrat Party’s –intolerant hatred of their opponents is the real threat to the republic. Unless we can purge that from the political landscape and – like Charlie Kirk –reaffirm that reclaiming our greatness lies in dialogue, not degradation, then our ongoing hot civil war can only escalate.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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1 posted on 10/27/2025 6:20:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Do they really think we would put up with “Struggle Sessions”?


2 posted on 10/27/2025 6:20:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

the 80-year-old cadaverous crank Carville

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That is a very kind description of the snake. And Al Hunt must be about 100 years old now.


3 posted on 10/27/2025 6:23:36 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (NO rooftop security at the Charlie Kirk assassination event? Did we learn nothing from Butler, PA?)
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To: MtnClimber

the dims inner totalitarians are becoming visible


4 posted on 10/27/2025 6:25:42 AM PDT by xp38
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To: The_Media_never_lie

82 turning 83 on Dec. 4. Those two are almost classmates.


5 posted on 10/27/2025 6:27:47 AM PDT by xp38
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To: MtnClimber

Be careful, James. The new Woke 20-somthings would put you up on stage in a dunce cap for a struggle session based on some of the things you’ve said about them.


6 posted on 10/27/2025 6:28:20 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MtnClimber

Snicker all you like, but this sort of vengeance by the left is not unthinkable. There’s no telling what horrors might follow the next election of a Democrat president — and up to half of our fellow Americans will vote Democrat (vote fraud would make up the difference) and then would go along with the retributions or look the other way.


7 posted on 10/27/2025 6:32:42 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: MtnClimber

James, sit down and eat your pudding cup.................


8 posted on 10/27/2025 6:33:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

Carville looks like a really old turtle, and he is as ignorant as a rock. He is just another leftist joke.


9 posted on 10/27/2025 6:35:56 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: MtnClimber

Caucasian isn’t popular anymore in Carville’s Amerika! He wants to shave our heads and make us look like all the Afrikan females in the U.S. Congress with their shave skinheads to show off their new Black Supremacy.


10 posted on 10/27/2025 6:36:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is being ripped apart. We are no longer united. The Muzzies and Illegals own the RATS.)
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To: MtnClimber

Winning elections against Communists is the greatest crime imaginable and must be punished.


11 posted on 10/27/2025 6:37:34 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: MtnClimber

The chutzpah is strong in this one. His political party wouldn’t even exist if it were not for an actual (self-admitted) nazi collaborator named Georgy Schwartz (aka George Soros).


12 posted on 10/27/2025 6:38:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

Exactly.


13 posted on 10/27/2025 6:39:27 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: The_Media_never_lie; xp38

To be that old and be that bitter and angry really is a sad existence.......throw in the fact that LSU sucks this year and that old curmudgeon may spontaneously combust at any moment! LOL!


14 posted on 10/27/2025 6:42:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: MtnClimber
I think we ought to have radical – I think they all ought to have their heads shaven. They should be put in orange pajamas and should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public should be invited to spit on them. The universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed, and spit on.

I think POTUS should copy him word-for-word in a perp walk for looming convictions of the cabal.

[Yeah, Ok: Still got some hope left despite my other hand being full]

15 posted on 10/27/2025 6:46:20 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: MtnClimber
Carville is a punk. He would never say these things to anyone's face.
16 posted on 10/27/2025 7:00:30 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: MtnClimber

The left is crumbling. The end won’t be pretty, but watching the fall is a hoot!


17 posted on 10/27/2025 7:07:53 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

Carville’s party cheerleading days are long gone the party renamed all it’s snake oils.


18 posted on 10/27/2025 7:09:08 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: bk1000

“The left is crumbling. The end won’t be pretty”

The end will be be-YOU-tee-ful.


19 posted on 10/27/2025 7:14:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: MtnClimber

General Augusto Pinochet had the correct answer for dealing with Marxist freaks like carville.


20 posted on 10/27/2025 7:14:51 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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