Just over an hour prior to Tuesday’s latest 2020 Democratic presidential debate, longtime Democrat and former Clinton official James Carville appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball to unspool his latest takes of lunacy.

This time, he insisted that “Trumpism is the greatest threat this country has faced since the fall of communism” and Republicans cannot ever be trusted to “save the United States.”

Carville declined to make the case for Bennet, but instead attacked Trump by claiming that, instead of radical Islamic terror that’s killed thousands of Americans in the last three decades, it’s “Trump and Trumpism” that’s “the greatest threat this country has faced since the fall of communism and the only way to deal with it is defeat it resoundingly.”

He added that it will not only need to be “defeated at the polls,” but “decimated” in the same way that it’d “look like Clemson looked last night” against his LSU Tigers.

Later and in closing out their discussion, Matthews screeched with the utmost faux concern for the Republican Party (click “expand”):

MATTHEWS: What happened to the Republican Party? The opposition party — CARVILLE: They don’t exist. MATTHEWS: — from your thinking, the party that wasn't evil, it wasn't stupid. Now, I mean, I noticed in the whole day of defending Trump, not a single Republican member of the House, and they're all — some of them smart, not one of them said one good thing about Donald Trump personally. Nobody — nobody spoke for his character. Nobody said he's a good, honest, guy. I mean, it was immaculate, immaculate. Not a single positive comment. And yet, they bow to him like he's the emperor of Siam. They bow to him without ever respecting him personally. How do you explain?

Similarly falsely claiming to have an interest in the future of a vibrant GOP, Carville stated that “the Republican Party that you and I knew does not exist” because “[t]here's only Trump and Trumpism.”

He added that, when it comes to stopping Trump, “[i]t is up to the Democrats to eradicate this scourge” and “save the United States” since “[t]here’s no Republican going to come up and save us.”

Matthews then complimented Carville without missing a beat that he “[s]peaks integrity and true partisanship.”

Okay, sure, Chris.

To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on January 14, click “expand.”