CNN’s Van Jones Says the Democratic Party Is ‘Screwed’: ‘This Is a Nightmare’

Dean: “Yeah. And then just lastly, Van, in terms of Democrats and where they go from here, this last week we did see them try to — some people try to protest during the president’s address and then leader, House Leadership getting on to them, other Democrats calling them out. They still seem to be wandering around trying to figure this out. What’s your take?”
Jones: “Can we ask another question than talking about my own party? Can we talk about Ukraine or something? No? NO? Look, man, we’re screwed. I mean we don’t know — Democrats don’t know what to do. This is a nightmare. You know, somebody like Donald Trump, we thought we’d at least have, you know, Hakeem Jeffries in the speaker’s chair to hold them back if we didn’t have Kamala in there to do the right thing. Listen, the Democratic Party is going through a massive set of internal crises. You have a party that got trapped two ways. One, defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse. But when you’re defending a status quo, you’re going to lose. And then offending, most people in the country calling everybody sexist and racist and every other name and then saying, please follow us. That’s not a good strategy, folks. Defending a broken status quo and offending most of the country turns out is not as popular as my party thought it was going to be. And so it’s going to take a while for people to get it figured out. I don’t like talking about this. I’d rather be beat up — can you give me something I can beat up Shermichael about? I don’t want to talk about my own party.”
Dean: “I know. I know. I know, it’s a tough question. It’s a tough question.”