Well, if you ever had any doubt, Dean is a Communist and an anti-American and terrorist sympathizer. How else to explain this sympathy?
Most of the “news” media are glossing over Jones’s anti white, anti American rants. They’re making it just sound like a witch hunt. If that were true then all the other extremists 0 appointed would be on their way out too.
From what I hear them say, a lot of people on the left, like Dean, agree with the comments Jones has made regarding American racism, prejudice, imperialism, exploitation of minorities, brutality towards third-world countries, etc. They just phrase their ideas a little less directly.
So to them, Jones was indeed the object of a "smear" because there was nothing wrong with what he said. The mistake Jones made was that he was too explicit - should have used some "nuance," which would have given him some cover - like "taken out of context," "misinterpreted," etc.
That Dean is sympathic to the Marxist cause and ideology is no question. Dean’s leadership of the DNC and his teaming up with Soros is how the communists got into power.