Posted on 07/19/2026 9:55:47 AM PDT by Libloather
Longtime CNN political commentator and Democrat Van Jones rebuked far-left activists Saturday, warning that their positions on Hamas, prisons and immigration are regressive and threatened to steer the Democratic Party in the wrong direction as socialist-backed candidates celebrated recent primary victories.
"Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need 'party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes," Jones said on X, in reference to his Substack post.
Jones accused some Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) activists of promoting positions involving Hamas, policing, prisons and immigration that he considered outside the progressive movement.
"But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. 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 said.
Jones, a self-proclaimed progressive Democrat, outlined the policies he considered central to that political identity.
"I’m a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I’m rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life," Jones said.
The ex-administration advisor to former President Barack Obama also rejected the argument that the far-left was merely advocating the type of social democracy practiced in Nordic countries.
"Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them," Jones said. "I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter...
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THAT was my thought!
Van is no longer in the vanguard of The Revolution.
He needs to learn how to stand at the wall out back.
With today’s Democrat it’s always about their party and never about the country and our way of life and freedom. In the late 1800s and before, a DC politician was shunned and denigrated by his elected colleagues if they put their political party before the good of the country. We need to get that back!
“Translation: Tone it down, people are noticing.”
Bill Maher says he’s “out” on the Democrat party:
“I can’t just sit and not notice stuff”
“Democrats are cowardly… their party is being taken over now. Every day I hear about a new radical...when we’re cheering for the intifada, I’m out.”
What amazes me the most is that ALL these democrap tools that endorsed, forced, and put all this leftist garbage upon us for DECADES, are acting like the monster they’ve created isn’t their fault.
Own this crap, pinkos!
The fat guy was in Siccario, yes?
Wow is Van Jones one to talk. I remember seeing him on TV during the riots wearing his Revolutionary Marxist Brigades t-shirt. He subsequently became a highly paid token radical for the news media. High income has convinced him that wealth wasn’t all bad, and the Left “shouldn’t be so hasty”. Might panic the herd, ya know.
From wikipedia:
“Van Jones and the Revolutionary Marxist Brigade (STORM)
Van Jones, born Anthony Kapel Jones in 1968, is an American political analyst, author, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who has been associated with radical leftist activism in the 1990s Wikipedia. His early political radicalization began during the 1992 Rodney King riots, when he shifted from a nationalist stance to embracing communism after being arrested...
STORM: Revolutionary Marxist Collective
Jones was a founding member and leader of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a Marxist–Maoist collective active in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1994 to 2002. STORM emerged from Roots Against War (RAW), a group of young people of color who opposed the Gulf War and had ties to the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade.”
“I’m rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water.”
Right, you’re a Socialist/Communist. So what’s your point?
'No police, no prisons, no borders' is not progressive.
That must be why those and the antisemitism became the official agenda of the Demagogic Party since the Kenyan was installed in 2009.
I thought Van Jones was a card-carrying Communist. That’s why he couldn’t work for Obama as “green jobs czar.”
It might be too late
See tagline. It’s been that way a looooong time.
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