Van Jones Sounds the Alarm: 'Democratic Party Is Screwed'
Former Obama advisor Van Jones said that the Democratic Party was “screwed” and admitted they are in a “nightmare” amid ongoing friction between party members.
“Look, man, we’re screwed,” Jones said on “CNN Newsroom” Sunday.
“I mean, Democrats don’t know what to do. This is a nightmare.”
“You know, somebody like Donald Trump, we thought we’d at least have Hakeem Jeffries in the Speaker’s chair to hold him back if we didn‘t have Kamala in there to do the right thing.”
Jones noted how the party is caught between the establishment and the more progressive members with no clear path forward.
“Listen, the Democratic Party is going through a massive set of internal crises,” he said.
“You have a party that got trapped two ways.
One, defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse. But when you’re defending the status quo, you’re going to lose.”
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He continued:
“And then offending most people in the country, calling everybody sexist and racist and transphobic and every other name, and then saying, ‘please follow us.’
“That’s not a good strategy, folks. Defending a broken status quo and offending most of the country, turns out, is not as popular as my party thought it was going to be. And so it’s going to take a while for people to get it figured out,” Jones added.
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Since President Donald Trump‘s election victory, the Democratic Party has continued to suffer the consequences of its past actions.
A Quinnipiac University survey conducted not long after Trump took office found just 31% of respondents had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, the controversy caused by Democratic Rep. Al Green when he interrupted President Donald Trump during his address to Congress hasn’t helped the party’s approval rating.
80% of respondents thought Green’s behavior was inappropriate, according to a CNN poll.
The House of Representatives later censured Green.
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