You know it’s bad when partisan Democrat James Carville has to be the one to call out the party’s far-left tilt. Appearing on MSNBC, Tuesday, the former Bill Clinton operative warned of a coming liberal “cult” and blasted the press for going “AOC crazy.” He repeatedly predicted that Democrats could turn into the deeply unpopular British Labour Party.

Clearly, Carville isn’t a fan of socialism as a winning strategy. He told journalists Brian Williams and others: “The press corps went AOC crazy.... We have got to decide what we want to be. Do we want to be an ideological cult? Or do we want to have a majoritarian instict to be a majority party?”

Carville is right that the press has been very excited about the young socialist, deeming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “phenom” and the “best storyteller in the party.” The veteran Democrat repeatedly warned of turning into the Labour Party of Britain: “This party needs to wake up and make sure that we talk about things are relevant to people.... We don't need to become British Labour Party. That's a bad thing. It's not going well over there.”

As a frame of reference for what Carville is talking about: The British Labour Party has been out of power since 2010. In December, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party lost to the Conservatives in a landslide, their worst defeat since 1935.

A few minutes later, Carville again connected Corbyn — a socialist — to Bernie Sanders — a socialist —, slamming the 2020 candidate:

CARVILLE: Look at the British Labour Party. We're like talking about people voting from jail cells. We're talking about not having a border. I mean, come on, people. Every day people are out there struggling. We’re trying to get votes in Northern Wisconsin and Western Pennsylvania. MELBER: You were saying you consider Bernie Sanders for open borders? For people voting? CARVILLE: I don’t consider, he said he is! He said we should give people a ticket. All right? I'm saying what he said. If you read Ron Brownstein, $35 trillion in spending, read all of it. Of course I would vote for him. But I don't want Democratic Party of the United States to be the Labour Party of the United Kingdom.

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