Van Jones Attacks Fellow Dems for Defending ‘Broken Status Quo’: ‘We’re Screwed’

CNN commentator Van Jones had some choice words for his fellow Democrats Sunday night when asked for his take on the current state of the party, saying his pals on the left “don’t know what to do.”

It all started on CNN Newsroom Sunday when anchor Jessica Dean asked Jones about Democrats who “seem to be wandering around trying to figure this out.”

Initially, Jones jokingly tried to pivot from the subject.

“Can we ask another question? Do I keep talking about my own party? Can we talk about Ukraine or something?” Jones quipped.

But then, he didn’t hold back:

Look, man, we’re screwed. I mean, we don’t know. Democrats don’t know what to do. This is 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.

Listen, the Democratic Party is going through a massive set of internal crises. 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. 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.

Democrats have recently been taken to task from within in a troubling trend for the left, especially in the wake of President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress last week.

Among those criticizing the party are former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), The View host Sunny Hostin, longtime operative David Axelrod, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom(D).

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