James Carville says Democrats lacked 'endgame plan' for shutdown, urges party to move on

Democratic strategist James Carville mentioned Tuesday that the Democrats didn't have a real endgame with their executive shutdown strategy but argued no one in the party should be mad with each other Carville appeared on former CNN host Jim Acosta's Substack to discuss lessons learned from the executive shutdown which is expected to end on Wednesday as the House of Representatives is set to vote on a federal funding bill Acosta noted President Donald Trump saying during a Fox News interview this week that Republicans broke Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer D-N Y First of all the lesson is everything that everybody says is true Carville stated There was not a real endgame plan here It was a simple legislative maneuvering that we didn't do that well on There were a couple of points and also the eight senators who decided to reopen the governing body everything they say is true he added CARVILLE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING CALLED OUT FOR PREDICTING TRUMP ADMIN COLLAPSE SAYS IT S HAPPENING NOW'The eight senators in the Democratic caucus who voted with the GOP on a deal to end the shutdown have taken heat from members of their own party over their vote Schumer has also faced backlash and calls to be replaced as the top Democrat in the Senate though he did not vote to end the shutdown And this is just one of those things that I'm not mad at anybody on the Democratic side and no one on the Democratic side should be mad at anybody else on the Democratic side Carville added He urged Democrats and others to vent all they want about the Democrats' decision to cave on the shutdown until Wednesday After that he revealed people should shut up and move on So when you're in a coalition you have different tensions within the coalition And when you negotiate with a cult and understand that is what the Republican Party is nowadays It's a cult Carville mentioned You're at a severe disadvantage 'THE VIEW' CO-HOST RAILS AGAINST DEMOCRATS AFTER ENDING SHUTDOWN SAYS CHUCK SCHUMER'S DAYS ARE OVER Carville commented Democrats have a you're not the boss of me attitude that differentiates the party from the GOP He argued that if he were a Republican he would have sided with the Democrats on extending the Obamacare subsidies because it's going to really hurt key voters I can just say the Democrats held me hostage he noted The Democrats you know I think they had an exit ramp here And now they've just shut the exit ramp down And there's no interstate that goes into infinity I authentically thought politically the best decision they Republicans could have made was claim that the Democrats are political terrorists but we've got to vote for this and it would have been out of the trap But they hate it Obamacare so much it's irrational Carville added CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURECarville speculated someone on the Democratic side thought that this was too good a deal for them to pass up Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have criticized the deal