Democrats have done a lot of sit-downs complete with various analyses and dissections of what went wrong in their campaign to prevent Donald Trump from winning the presidency for the second time. But perhaps none have been more blunt than Van Jones.
Jones, who served in former President Barack Obama’s administration as a green jobs advisor and is now a CNN political contributor, has been on a tear since Vice President Kamala Harris’ humiliating Election Day defeat. He’s repeatedly told Democrats that they need to get out of their echo chamber and completely change the way they do things going forward because, in his view, Trump changed the game in 2024 with how effectively he campaigned and won over a unique coalition of influential public/political figures like Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joe Rogan, and Tulsi Gabbard.
For instance, during a New York Times event earlier this month that featured some pretty big names in politics and the media, Jones talked to his fellow panelists about how Trump’s digital media game was far better than the Democrats’:
“First of all, digital is the new door-knocking. You’ve got to understand that,” he said. “We were laughing our butts off at