Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville argued Thursday that President Biden’s “self-inflicted” political misfortunes have made the outgoing commander in chief the “most tragic figure” in modern American politics.

Carville, 80, suggested that Biden’s decision to launch a re-election campaign – and stay in the race until 3 ½ months before Election Day – ruined his legacy as well as another Democrat’s chance to maintain control of the White House and pardon his son, Hunter, for him. 

“The most tragic figure in American politics in my lifetime is President Biden,” Carville declared in a video published on YouTube. 

“It’s all so f—ing self-inflicted … He knows that he f—-ed up,” the pundit added. 

Carville, who rose to fame after running former President Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 campaign, argued that Biden’s downfall is a “f—ing shame” because he wasn’t brought down over “bad policies” and is “the most tolerant, loving, caring, non-prejudice person you can imagine.”

“And this is what he’s faced with,” he added. 

Carville was alluding to the criticism the president has received from fellow Democrats for pardoning Hunter, 54, who was facing prison time for federal gun and tax crimes. 

The strategist dismissed the outcry over the pardon, suggesting that no one should’ve believed the president when he and the White House repeatedly declared that Hunter wouldn’t be pardoned. 

“Alright, so he said, ‘I’d never pardon the kid.’ OK. I don’t believe any – When anybody says, ‘I never had sex with that person,’ or, ‘I’d never pardon my kid,’ I don’t pay any attention to it, ‘cause I think everybody lies about sex and everybody is going to do what they’re going to do with their own children,” Carville explained.

“But the different scenario would be if he would have, in September of 2023, or August, said that he wasn’t going to run – God damn, we would have won this election, and it wouldn’t have been that close, because we’d have had so many freaking talented people that were running,” he continued.

Carville asserted that Biden would be “the toast of Washington” and “getting ready to leave on a high note” had he dropped out of the race sooner.  

In this alternative reality, Carville argued that the incoming Democratic president “could have sort of gotten away with commuting any sentence that Hunter Biden got” and that the outrage would have been “minimal.” 

“It’s tragic, it’s sad,” Carville continued, speaking on Biden’s legacy. “It will be six years before somebody comes back and talks about all of the stunning things – the manufacturing that he’s brought back, the stunning stuff he’s done.”

“What’s so sad, it didn’t have to be this way. He brought it all on himself,” he said.