As is the case with HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher and Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman, Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones — accomplished attorney, civil rights activist, best-selling author, and CNN commentator — occasionally hits the nail on the head.
This was one of those times.
During a recent appearance on CNN — the absurdly self-proclaimed "Most Trusted Name in News" — Jones finally admitted what conservatives and other rational people have been saying for years: The "woke era" has gone way too far:
This is not gonna make me popular, but I’m not mad, because it got ridiculous. I’m an employer, and at a certain point, your Slack channel just turns into Vietnam every other day because something happened that had nothing to do with the workplace.
You got to bring in all kinds of counselors and, like, this is not camp, guys. We’re trying to make money. So I enjoyed the moment for a while where we were having our reckonings about everything. We done wrecked, okay? Reckoning direct.
"We can move on,” Jones added, laughing — perhaps nervously so.
Among those who were at least mildly surprised by Jones' candid admission was “Quick Start Podcast” host Dan Andros, who told BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere on “Stu Does America” he viewed the CNN commentator as "pretty perceptive":
I think he’s sort of admitting this because Van Jones is pretty perceptive, and so I think he’s recognizing that … they’ve overplayed their hands, the woke folks, right? Like it’s just people are sick of it, as evidenced by Donald Trump waltzing into the White House for a second time.
This guy [Trump], they rebranded as Hitler for four years. And they’re like, ‘Well, how did Hitler get in there?’ It’s like, I don’t know. Maybe because like Van said, you turned your job that you have to show up to every day, for millions of people, into this place where now they’ve got to tiptoe around every microaggression imaginable and it’s a living nightmare, and they voted against it overwhelmingly.
Perfect summation by Andros.
Moreover — and conservatives love every minute of it — the TDS-ridden left, including the Democrat Party, of course, still doesn't get it. Like most, if not all, of you, I hope they never do.
Needless to say, Burguiere wholeheartedly agreed with Andros:
"If you say, ‘Donald Trump is Hitler,’ right, and then Hitler gets elected, you have a path to go. Your two choices are, number one, I was wrong. He’s not Hitler, and I was overexaggerating [sic] what my belief was in this guy. He’s actually not that bad. I just have a disagreement with him,” he explains.
"Or two, he is Hitler, and I live in Nazi Germany because the people around me all want Hitler.”
“I think maybe to some extent, Van Jones is choosing this way to say, ‘Look, maybe this was overexaggerated,’ where I think a lot of the people on the left, certainly on the CNN panel every single night, are saying, ‘Look, we’re just in Nazi Germany.'"
Again, bingo. Also again: Let's hope the loons in the Democrat party continue to self-immolate.
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