CNN Talking Head Van Jones
spoke On Friday, I spoke to former colleague Chris Cillizza at length about the Americans. political class” They did not understand which direction the wind was blowing on November 5th and how it could have brought them down.
Jones, a former adviser to President Obama, said it took him weeks to recover from his election night disappointment, but especially how President-elect Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the election and took back the White House. He spoke candidly about how well he did, emphasizing that Trump especially outmaneuvered his critics. Those in the media “misread'' his appeal and apolitical strategy.
After suggesting that the liberal political system is “totally extreme up” and disconnected from voters and their wants and needs, Jones went on to explain media predictions for the election by Haruspexes predicting omens from animal entrails. He likened it to the ancient habit of reading. .
“There was a time when people tried to read the future by cutting open a pig and throwing the pig's innards on the ground. That's like asking, 'Have you thought about it?'” Misreading Pig's Innards Is it? 'We just felt so sick,' Jones said. “We weren't reading the actual electorate at all. For example, we were using completely outdated terminology and methods of analysis, 'floating voters,' 'moderate voters,' 'male voters,' 'female voters.' None of that was the focus of Donald Trump's team.”
While Kamala Harris ran a political campaign that primarily targeted Americans based on immutable characteristics, Jones said Trump has instead run a “masculinist cultural movement” and the UFC, ” He suggested that it may have drawn in a number of subcultures such as “health and wellness people” and “cryptocurrency people.” ” — join the wider tent by involving them, talking to them, and taking them seriously.
Schritza later acknowledged that the coalition formed around Trump “did a little bit of something for a lot of different people.”
Jones said Democrats have made matters worse by thinking in terms of left and right. It understands that President Trump is playing a vertical game in some cases, appealing to low-trust groups across party lines as opposed to those who still trust liberal institutions. Because it wasn't.
“We look like idiots.”
“On election day, we woke up in body bags and we didn't know it,” Jones continued. “We thought Trump was trashing him because CNN, NPR, the New York Times, all of the mainstream media were trashing him so hard. Mainstream media is now on the fringes.
Jones emphasized that alternative media has far surpassed legacy media, and that it's not unheard of for CNN or Fox News to fall far short of “a Twitch streamer you've never heard of.”
“I lost on a platform I had never heard of,” Jones continued. “The problem we're going to face is that when Joe Rogan sits down with Donald Trump, 48 million people are going to watch the podcast on YouTube.
YouTube! Not many people watched the debate on CNN. So everyone, please stay away from my face. Our analysis was wrong. We didn't even have a conceptual framework to understand what was going on. ”
“We were struck by something we didn't understand.”
Harris avoided interviews for much of the campaign, but when she did field questions, they were mostly on friendly mainstream media networks. She made only two notable appearances on podcasts, skyrocketing her chances of appearing on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Meanwhile, Mr. Trump appeared on numerous podcasts, evenly crushing Ms. Harris's efforts. conservative estimate.
“We're playing a different game,” Jones said.
Despite expressing agreement with Jones throughout, Sillitza still seems confused about how Trump was able to pull it off, and Jones seems to be confused about how Trump was able to pull it off. He once again criticized the mental framework that is currently in place. “How can Donald Trump do that?” Can we all stop doing that? Donald Trump is not stupid. ”
While the establishment has been eager in recent months to characterize Trump as a Hitler-like figure, many have suggested over the years that the Republican president possessed substandard mental capacity.
For example, Max Boot, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,
proposed Trump was “too stupid to be president.” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called President Trump “stupid and short-tempered.” So does California Representative Nancy Pelosi (Democratic). proposed Trump called it “stupid” in his memoir. The New Republic tried to combine features of both; make a call Trump is an “extremely stupid fascist.”
“Let me be clear: Donald Trump is smarter than me and you and all the critics, because you know what I mean? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, Because he has the popular vote, and the right to vote.'' He has a huge media system bigger than the mainstream built around him and for him, and the political movement around him has a religious His best friend is the richest and most important person in the history of the world. Kennedy is with him.” Jones. “This guy is a phenomenon. He's the most powerful human being on the planet and in our lifetimes. And we're still like, 'Well, what about this guy?'” We're like idiots. . ”
Jones emphasized that liberals' failure to understand President Trump “doesn't mean he's stupid. It means we don't get it, and that means we're stupid.” , adding, “We were devastated by something we didn't understand.”
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