‘We Look Like Idiots!’ Van Jones Continues His Post-Election Tear Against Democrats
“[Donald Trump] is a phenomenon. He is the most powerful human on earth and in our lifetime. And we’re still saying, ‘Well, how is this guy [doing it]?’ We look like idiots!”
Democrats have done a lot of sit-downs complete with various analyses and dissections of what went wrong in their campaign to prevent Donald Trump from winning the presidency for the second time. But perhaps none have been more blunt than Van Jones.
Jones, who served in former President Barack Obama’s administration as a green jobs advisor and is now a CNN political contributor, has been on a tear since Vice President Kamala Harris’ humiliating Election Day defeat. He’s repeatedly told Democrats that they need to get out of their echo chamber and completely change the way they do things going forward because, in his view, Trump changed the game in 2024 with how effectively he campaigned and won over a unique coalition of influential public/political figures like Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joe Rogan, and Tulsi Gabbard.
For instance, during a New York Times event earlier this month that featured some pretty big names in politics and the media, Jones talked to his fellow panelists about how Trump’s digital media game was far better than the Democrats’:
“First of all, digital is the new door-knocking. You’ve got to understand that,” he said. “We were laughing our butts off at Donald Trump for suspending his door-knocking campaign and letting [conservative activist] Charlie Kirk and [Tesla CEO] Elon [Musk] do a bunch of stuff online. We said, ‘These guys are idiots! These guys are stupid!’”
“Then you start knocking on these doors … you know what people come to the door with? Their phone in their hand. They’re in a 24-hour digital surround sound that has nothing to do with CNN, has nothing to do with any of the stuff that we do,” he added.
Jones argued that Trump managed to understand the changing political landscape better than the Democrats.
“The mainstream has become fringe and the fringe has become mainstream,” he also said.
Watch some clips from the event below:
Van Jones has come to the realization that legacy media is dead:
"Digital is the new doorknocking. You got to understand that we were laughing our butts off at Donald Trump for suspending his door knocking campaign and letting Charlie Kirk and Elon do a bunch of stuff online with… pic.twitter.com/oNGjDemKtZ— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 12, 2024
Van Jones on Dems alienating people like RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Joe Rogan: “We pushed all our rebels out of this party. We had a rebellion in our party in 2016; it was called Bernie Sanders. You had a rebellion in your party in 2016; it was called Donald Trump. Your rebel won. Our… pic.twitter.com/apDGmtp6ma
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) December 12, 2024
🚨Wow. Van Jones nukes Kamala Harris:
“There’s a reckoning inside the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris promised us freedom. Well, she delivered it to us because now we’re free from having to run anything in Washington DC.” pic.twitter.com/ANpYl1cd2J
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) December 11, 2024
Jones was even more pointed in a back-and-forth exchange with former CNN editor-at-large turned Substacker Chris Cillizza, repeating the “mainstream has become fringe” point and also pointing out that Democrats themselves are stupid to believe still Donald Trump is stupid after all this time:
Chris Cillizza: “How the hell did Donald Trump figure out that the mainstream media is the fringe and the fringe is now the mainstream? The 78 year old guy who doesn’t even have a computer and still, like, write handwritten notes? How did he become the guy who cracked the code?”
Van Jones: “Everybody keeps I mean, the problem is you have a framework in your mind that how can Donald Trump, how could Donald Trump, how can our guys can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump…let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me. You and all critics. This dude is a phenomenon. He is the most powerful human on earth and in our lifetime. And we’re still saying, Well, how is this guy [doing it]? We look like idiots?”
Cillizza: “You’re totally right.”
Watch:
Van Jones calls out liberal media figures for habitually saying that Trump is stupid, and notes that mainstream media figures are the ones that end up 'looking like idiots':
Chris Cillizza: "How the hell did Donald Trump figure out that the mainstream media is the fringe and the… pic.twitter.com/Ni7FQAacsY— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 13, 2024
Van Jones reiterates why he believes the mainstream media is fringe, and the 'fringe' have now become the mainstream:
Van Jones: "We woke up in a body bag on Election Day and didn't even know it. Why? Because we thought that because CNN, NPR, New York Times, all of the mainstream… pic.twitter.com/5mCVWkmdKH— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 13, 2024
He also told Cillizza that the Democrat Party was so “off” on what they needed to do to win future elections that they were “in a ditch, upside down, with wheels spinning going nowhere on fire, and the people driving are saying ‘this is fine, this is fine.'”
Watch:
Van Jones describes the Democrat party as a vehicle stuck in a ditch:
"The Democratic Party is in a ditch, upside down with wheels spinning going nowhere on fire.
The people driving are saying, this is fine. This is fine.
They can keep drinking their own pee water, if they want… pic.twitter.com/6J0MkVkQ0F— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 13, 2024
Van Jones seems to have figured out that the legacy media is dying and being replaced in part by digital media, which includes popular Twitch streamers and TikTok influencers as well as podcasters like Joe Rogan, to whom millions more – including those in the disaffected groups Trump targeted – watch/listen to than they do legacy media outlets.
While Jones seems resigned to the fact that traditional media outlets are becoming irrelevant and taking a backseat to digital media and other alternative news/information sources, clearly he is (understandably) not happy that his fellow Democrats are behind and trying to play catch up with Trump on this matter, who did know all of this and exploited it to the hilt.
When the “stupid” guy beats you by completely rewriting your previously tried and true playbook, it’s gotta sting, which is why some five weeks or so after the election, a lot of sad trombones are still playing in Democrat World and will be for quite some time to come.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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You are stupid idiots. And criminals.
That’s why you look like stupid idiots. And criminals.
Normies cannot become complacent.
Imho this Van Jones soul-searching is a lot of theatrics —-> we must ensure election integrity going forward. (We probly souls have Az and Nv and Wisc and Mich senators. The enemies of America are cunning and relentless)
He’s set for life. It allows him to be blunt and honest from time to time. It allows him to open his eyes. Still, the policies he pushes are anathema.
What he apparently neglects is that people saw the Democrats as cheats, rightly so, as will be reinforced as the evidence comes to the fore in the new administration of the utter disdain for democracy and rule of law commencing in 2008, growing in 2012, and exploding in 2016 and 2020.
They came within millimeters of killing Trump in Butler, PA.
Had they succeeded, Kamala or FJB would have run against Nikki Haley.
As well, the J6ers would be serving their sentences and Chris Wray would be serving out his.
Yet and still — after the recent election, someone in the us government said, “It’s one thing to win an election, it’s another to get inaugurated.”
They still hate us.
Who hates us defines our worth, wear it as a badge of honor.
“ He is the most powerful human on earth and in our lifetime.”
Wrong. That would be Elon Musk and there is no competition. Could be wrong but he’s looking da Vinci level right at the moment.
“We look like idiots?”
You’ve always looked like idiots. Malicious, little minded idiots.
“We look like idiots!”
He’s not qualified to make that assessment. Is he an optician?
Nice.
An Jones was gifted a HUNDRED MILLION from Bezos
For absolutely nothing
AND he was in the frontlines of calling Trump a Nazi, dictator, etc
Huh, turns out shrieking hysterically and referring to your opponents as “fascists” wasn’t the Napoleonic-level strategy you thought it was, VJ. Turns out nominating a braying none-too-bright hyena who had never won a single electoral vote wasn’t a winning strategy.
I was saying this back in 2016, that Trump was someone who understood the media as no one in our lifetime. He figured out that the mainstream media was obsolete, and that especially includes Van Jones’ puppeteers at CNN. Rumor is that his son convinced him to go on Rogan, but it worked, as did his other interviews.
Van Jones can whine all he likes, he can attack his fellow Democrats, but he was neck deep in making the same mistakes. Democrats don’t learn.
Trump shifted the entire country an average of 8 points to the right. Talk about your landslides..
One more time Van Jones says what most Democrats either are not aware of or are afraid to say in public. If only Van Jones could turn that perception about the election on the policies he and other Democrats espouse. 🙂
For all the brouhaha about “landslide,” Trump beat Harris by only 2.4 million votes, or 1.6%. That was a clearcut victory, but not a “landslide.”
Ditto the not yet dead MSM. Yes, about half the country ignores the MSM. But the other half, for the most part, still believes the MSM.
It ain’t over yet.
We need to stop talking about the popular vote. It’s not how we elect a president and mentioning it as if it were on par with the electoral college is a mistake.
EC is the okay to govern and the popular vote is a mandate for change. Trump won both.
Trump shifted the entire country an average of 8 points to the right. Talk about your landslides..
I meant to put this comment here, not above
Well, you always did…
As a card carry physiologists, we used to mock the anatomists by saying that their creed was “I’ll see it when I believe it.” Most liberals are clearly future anatomists.
This isn’t what made you look like idiots. That was d9ne years ago.
Sometimes things are as they appear.
Take heed, republicans. Remember in 2008 and 2012 when Barack Obama trounced us with his ground game? Remember when we were told that we were so far behind in the online game that we’d be out of power for a generation? In 10-15 years, that has seemingly flipped. It can flip back again if we kick back, relax, and act like we have the future in the bag. The work never ends, and we need to be willing to do the work.
I don’t think conservatives need to convince anyone of anything.
The left is doing all the convincing.
Oh trust me Jones, you don’t don’t just look like idiots you are idiots.
another very minor point!
very few lefties are really socialists or like socialists, for that matter
most (semi-intelligent) lefties have seen what a quasi-socialist government under Biden has left them with: a dollar that today buys what a penny did four years ago, a few wealthy people at the top telling the rest of us to buy moldy bread with what’s left in our bank accounts and be grateful for the pennies they’ve left us with
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