Left wing commentator Van Jones recently appeared on CNN and described the feelings among Democrats over Chuck Schumer voting to keep the government open, saying that he has never seen this level of anger.
If you watch the clip below, you may notice two things. Van Jones is absolutely delusional about what Republicans in the Senate were able to do when they were out of power under Obama. He seems to think they got all kinds of concessions because of the abilities of Mitch McConnell. In reality, Obama told the GOP “I won.”
Second, note how Jones admits that for Democrats, this battle is all about emotion. Isn’t that part of the problem?
Townhall has details:
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was seen as the only person to handle the reins of the Senate Democratic Caucus after Harry Reid died. Now, everyone is looking to vote this guy off the island. In less than a week, a man who was respected and revered among the rank-and-file on the Hill among congressional Democrats is being primed to end up like Robespierre for refusing to get into a shutdown fight with the Trump White House.
The New York liberal’s reasons were clear and rational: this wouldn’t be a normal shutdown, as Trump would likely use the shutdown to accelerate the whittling down of the federal workforce. The continuing resolution was clean, and there was nothing really to oppse here other than ‘we don’t like Trump.’ That’s not a sane reason to shut down government. More importantly, there was no message or plan for a shutdown fight. The disunity among congressional Democrats is unprecedented—Nancy Pelosi was urging all-out rebellion against Schumer before the Senate advanced and passed the CR yesterday.
CNN’s Van Jones noted how the fallout from this will not be pleasant for Mr. Schumer, who he says is enduring a “volcanic eruption of outrage.”
“I’ve never seen this level of volcanic anger at a Democrat, ever,” he said.
Here’s the clip:
DEMS IN DISARRAY: Van Jones says there’s a “volcanic eruption of outrage” from Democrats at Chuck Schumer:
“I’ve never seen this level of volcanic anger at a Democrat, ever.”
“There’s an emotional need to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk from running over this party. And I… pic.twitter.com/mYfPmbNUca
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 15, 2025
Democrats are in full meltdown mode and their base is ready to blow up the party. If Van Jones thinks they’re angry now, how does he think they’ll be doing in about six months?
