Posted on 12/02/2016 8:49:29 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
On election night, CNN guest star Van Jones claimed voters in the rustbelt states had been guilty of a “Whitelash;” that is, a racist backlash against 8 years of a black president. It was the only possible explanation for Hillary’s stunning loss to a candidate Jones accused of being a bully and a bigot.
What a difference 3 weeks have made! Suddenly it was the “arrogance and elitism” of the Democrat Party and the Clinton campaign that were responsible for the defeat no one on the left had expected. Maybe Jones no longer believes Trump to be a “bully” or a “bigot” and perhaps his Muslim friends have stopped asking Obama’s communist Green Czar if they should leave the country.
The following article was published on December 1st on Breitbart.com
Van Jones: Trump Won Rust Belt Because of Dems ‘Arrogance and Elitism’
By Pam Key
Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” former Obama administration green jobs czar and CNN contributor Van Jones said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lost to President-elect Donald Trump because Democrats’ “arrogance and elitism,” caused them to ignore the suffering in the rust belt states.
Partial transcript as follows:
JONES: There’s more going on than the media has gotten to. There’s heartbreak all around and we got to start listening to each other.
GOLDBERG: But here’s my question. Now that we are starting to see the plans and the people Donald’s putting in, how is this going to affect them? Because you know, all of the things that these families have put their hopes and dreams on him —
JONES: Listen, tell you what, they’re going to be patient with Donald Trump because they’ve been waiting for a long time. And I’m going to tell you something as a liberal, when those factories started closing, did the NAACP come help? Did Green Peace? Did the National Organization for Woman, did any liberal group come? We as liberals can’t be mad. We didn’t ask them for a date. We didn’t try to say come with me to dinner. So then Donald Trump shows up and takes them out and now we’re mad.
BEHAR: How do you account for the fact that she has 2.5 million more popular votes than he then?
JONES: It was the weakness in the rust belt. That’s where she lost it. I was saying back in June—those so-called blue states are hanging by a thread and nobody went there to fix it.
BEHAR: They didn’t agree. They didn’t see it. When I interviewed Nancy Pelosi, I said what if he wins, she said ‘he’s not going to win.’
JONES: Arrogance and elitism, and I love Nancy Pelosi.
He simply cooled-off and realized that the Dems cannot afford to continue to alienate white Rust Belt voters if they ever hope to win elections again.
The fact of the matter is that we don’t have a black president now (or will not have in January) and Van’s input isn’t really relevant any more. His racial identity politics have been subsumed by matters that affect us all, regardless of color, and what this country needs to prosper for all.
Too late!! he already revealed he’s a racist in his heart!
Los Angeles County and San Francisco County.
Next question.
He’s replicating the Obama experience of “learning how to talk to white people”.
van jones, the avowed commie, is such a racist and loser. Hopefully, he will rot soon. I laugh at his existence.
Jones is blowing with the winds...
There were demands that CNN FIRE HIM for his racist bullshcit after the election, so now he is laying low with that crap.
suckin up because he wants a job, bambi is done and all his cronies are tooooast
Because Clinton over-performed in blue areas with a high population density. Clinton's faux "margin of victory" would have been completely eliminated without California. The differential is even worse if you look at the results by county or congressional district.
The NY Times has some interesting graphics here:
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president
Click on the "size of lead" selector on the left, and then scroll around the country. Note the relatively small number oversized blue circles, and where they are located.
And this points out the wisdom of the Electoral College and the folly of the popular vote: a Presidential candidate can't campaign or propose policy just for places where there is a high density of votes.
This is effectively what Hillary did, and it's why she lost.
The Democrats see everything through the prism of victimhood (racism, sexism, xenophobia, etc.) so they only see the world as a collection of victims and victimizers.
Oven the last 8 years
The Democrats Elites abandon their traditional core voters the blue collar workers
And we all know the Republicans Elites abandoned their traditional core voters. Us here
So Trump came along and put together a coalition the old Dem in the old Repcore voters
I have yet to run across ANYBODY who gives a damn what Van Jones thinks, or says.
In his heart, Van Jones still thinks that Donald Trump is and always has been a racist. Trump is white, isn’t he? And all whites are racists at their core, therefore Trump is racist, according to Van Jones.
You can’t fix deeply held beliefs, no matter how erroneous they may be either in the premise or the execution.
Just wait until Trump goes into the inner cities, rebuilds them and every black kid has school choice. Van Jones and the other race hustlers will have NOTHING left
And fart in his general direction!
“Too late!! he already revealed he’s a racist in his heart!”
Yup....the only reason he is starting to sound more rational is because he has an election special coming upon CNN...he is lying to us now to get us to watch the special...he will go right back to race baiting on an industrial level a week after.
He’s wrong, I only voted for trump is because this asshole is black.
a bathroom attendant?
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