James Carville Says Democrats Should Let Trump Destroy Himself—But There’s a Catch

James Carville says the smartest thing Democrats can do right now is get out of

the way and let Donald Trump destroy himself. Cliff Schecter and David Shuster

think he's half right—and the half he's wrong about could cost Democrats 2026.

Joining them today: Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and one of the

sharpest anti-Trump operatives in the country, who has spent six years testing

the question of whether you beat this movement by ignoring it or by hitting it.

AMPED UP with Cliff Schecter and David Shuster. Live at 2 p.m. Eastern.

🔹 The Carville Doctrine — "play dead," let Trump collapse under his own weight,

and don't hand him a foil. Where it's right, and where it's a fantasy.

🔹 The catch nobody says out loud: destroying yourself and losing an election are

not the same thing. Trump has been destroying himself since 2015.

🔹 Reed Galen on what actually moved numbers at the Lincoln Project—and what the

consultant class still refuses to learn from it.

🔹 The 2026 map, the candidates nobody is covering, and where the party is still

bringing a press release to a knife fight.

🔹 Shuster on the press corps that keeps grading Trump on a curve.

🔹 Your questions, live in the chat.

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Reed Galen — co-founder of The Lincoln Project, founder of The Union, and host

of The Home Front.

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