'The people are revolting!' James Carville reveals plan for Dems to exploit 'pure rage'

A Democratic strategist is laying out a plan for Democrats to weaponize voter frustrations in the 2026 midterm elections — starting with rage.

James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist, wrote Monday in a New York Times opinion essay that it's now the time for Democrats to adopt the "most populist economic platform since the Great Depression."

"It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss," Carville wrote.

The 81-year-old called out Trump's declining approval rating and described how Democrats can now seize the moment to help energize the party and fight back as "Trump and decades of corrupt and morally bankrupt Republican economic agendas have splintered the very heart of the American economy."

"Zohran Mamdani, Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill — even down-ballot Georgia Democrats — all won with soaring margins because the people are p---ed. And the people always point their anger at the party in charge. Rent is out of control. Young people can’t afford homes or pay student debt. We’re living through the greatest economic inequality since the Roaring Twenties," he wrote.

"President Trump has done nothing to curb the cost of what it requires to take even a breath in America today, the centerpiece promise of his 2024 campaign. The people are revolting, and they have been for some time," Carville added.

Carville argued that Democrats need to capitalize on the moment.

"With all this rage, we must also have a bold, simple policy plan — one that every American can understand," he explained.

He suggested that Democrats now pivot to focusing on raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour, making college tuition free, adding rural broadband as a public utility and shifting child care to a public good.

"And darn it, we should not fear that running on a platform of seismic economic scale will cost us a general election. We’ve already lost enough of them by being afraid to try. The era of half-baked political policy is over," Carville wrote.