James Carville is big mad.
And if you’ve followed politics for long enough, you know that when Carville gets mad, he doesn’t hold back. But his latest outburst—aimed at sports commentator Stephen A. Smith—says a lot less about Smith and a whole lot more about Carville himself.
Smith committed the unforgivable sin of pointing out what plenty of Americans already know: the Democratic Party lacks strong leadership, and voters aren’t connecting with the people at the top. That was enough to send Carville into a tirade, blasting Smith as someone who doesn’t “know his ass from a hole in the ground” when it comes to politics.
It was a knee-jerk, condescending response—one that perfectly encapsulates why political insiders like Carville are losing their grip on relevance. They don’t know how to handle the fact that regular Americans are paying…
