Van Jones And Chris Cillizza Celebrate Discovering What Was In Front Of Them All Along

Posted • December 14, 2024: It looks like Captain Obvious has gained a First Lieutenant. Van Jones has convinced Chris Cillizza of what we’ve known for years - Trump‘s a smart guy. You think? You’ve got to see this. Donald Trump is a genius. -- Van Jones calls out liberal media figures for habitually saying that Trump is stupid, and notes that mainstream media figures are the ones that end up 'looking like idiots': Chris Cillizza: "How the hell did Donald Trump figure out that the mainstream media is the fringe and the fringe is now the mainstream? The 78 year old guy who doesn't even have a computer and still, like, write handwritten notes? How did he become the guy who cracked the code?"

Van Jones: "Everybody keeps I mean, the problem is you have a framework in your mind that how can Donald Trump, how could Donald Trump, how can our guys can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump Let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me. You and all critics. This dude is a phenomenon. He is the most powerful human on earth and in our lifetime. And we're still saying, Well, how is this Guy [doing it]? We look like idiots?" - Cillizza: "You're totally right." -- Geniuses learn from other's mistakes. Normal people learn from their own mistakes. Idiots do not learn from their own mistakes. The Democrat party and mainstream media are run by idiots, by definition. Van Jones is one of the few leftist commentators who has at least tried to understand Trump’s appeal instead of writing off his voters as ‘deplorables’ or worse.

Looks like Van Jones actually is able to see the Trump phenomenon for what is. He comprehends what normal people see & understand in Trump. Also what so many in the media and on the Left just can’t grasp or refuse to. At least they’re finally getting it. Man it’s been a long road. It’s rare for one person in, or on the fringes of, legacy media to have a self-reflective moment, but for two to have self-reflective moments at the same time is unprecedented. It’s like setting up a night vision camera in a remote forest and capturing not one, but two Bigfoots on camera at the same time. Yes, it’s that unlikely. Yeah, but we’re actually watching these two men self reflecting in real time. The one guy just needed to hear the someone in his network say it out loud. You can tell he’d wanted to get it out, he could not physically contain himself to his chair when he finally says “you’re right.” The whole thing really.

These two are not the staunch leftists still sniping and sitting in rigid denial like the panelists on CNN who Scott Jennings is dicing up or the cultists on The View. They’re head in hands and physically straining because it’s all rumbling around in their heads and they know they missed it all happening in front of their eyes, that they were unwitting propagandists. Kind of surprising to see from Van, actually, considering the fervor of his rhetoric up to and including election night. I’m glad. They’ll have to acknowledge their part and say they were wrong for me to forget, but I’m glad. It’s almost like Van Jones is giving Chris Cillizza permission to say the obvious truth. Van Jones has a thankless job. He’s spent years trying to convince ‘journalists’ and their fellow Democrats to not commit career and political suicide over Trump. We’ve seen how well that’s gone for them. (…)

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