CNN Political Commentator Van Jones Has Had Enough of Progressives Shoving “Crazy Ideas” Down Democrats’ Throats

Mediaite.com:

Van Jones let it all hang out on his Substack Saturday, posting a lengthy message in which he slammed left-wing activists as “party poopers” who were “pooping in the Kool-Aid bowl and telling us that the turds are ice cubes.” “Supporting Hamas is not progressive. ‘No police, no prisons, no borders’ is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE,” Jones insisted. 

 

The rant comes as Democratic Socialist candidates have had recent election victories in New York City and Colorado, where Melat Kiros recently ousted 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO). “I am tired of a set of people on the very far left in the Democratic party, my party, telling us that in order for us to be progressives that we now have to believe ideas and support ideas that are completely nuts,” he said. 

 

“I am a progressive Democrat,” Jones declared, outlining a set of priorities including universal health care, free education, the Green New Deal, and the environment as “our ideals as progressives.” He then slammed ideas put forth by some socialists, including that “we can’t deport anybody even if they commit rape and murder, Israel shouldn’t exist — these are terrible ideas. These are awful ideas. Where did these ideas even come from?

Of course, Van's going to receive plenty of backlash for these comments from the usual professional race-baiters and exterem white liberals on the Left. But they already don't like him for sometimes being a practical voice of reason with centrist views in a sea full of radical extremists. Not that Jones should give a f-ck anyway, esp. since he's been in the game for so long that the cable news networks will continue to platform him regardless. Besides, someone's gotta remind these fools that ass-backwards policies like boys using girls' bathrooms, opening the border and police abolition lack common sense and outside of Blue states only hurt the Democrat party.

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Liberal Pundit Van Jones Forced To Apologize For Calling “Dead Gaza Baby” Videos A “Disinformation Campaign”

Deadline.com:

Van Jones is walking back recent comments he made about the casualties left by the Israel-Hamas war.

After appearing Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher, during which he referred to online videos of dead babies killed in Palestine as a massive “disinformation campaign” on behalf of Iran and Qatar, the CNN host apologized on social media.

“I made a comment on Real Time with Bill Maher about the war in Gaza that was insensitive and hurtful. I apologize,” he wrote on X.

Of course, context matters. And it’s also worth noting that Jones, though a staunch liberal, has a history of frustrating his own side. As he’s one of the few left-leaning commentators willing to speak uncomfortable truths and call out liberals when they misstep or lose elections. That said, watching the full Maher segment makes it clear that Jones had a point--there is occasional misinformation about the war in Gaza coming from the Left. And he wasn’t wrong to suggest that, for some “Genocide in Gaza” protesters, the movement can feel more like a social trend or a way to stay aligned with the in-crowd than a genuine act of activism.

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