Van Jones:

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Link to tweet

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1. I don't care what bothsiderism VJ says.

His economic anxiety bullshit helped drump get elected.

[Bucky]

2. Saying Van Jones helped Trump cause he identified the problem Trump was supporting...

that's just shooting the messenger. Trump picked up zero support from Jones and zero support from Jones talking about the country's economic problems.

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3. He has tried to reach out to the deplorables and exchange stories with

them. The US fought the USSR not by villifying the Soviet people. There have to be many paths taken in the fight. I could not do what Van is if I was him. But who knows. Over 65% of Americans thought the George Floyd demonstrations were justified. So some people woke a bit from their fevered dreams of racism. Why you hear the GOP villify BLM. Because it is a threat to the right this exchange of empathy (as rare as it is in the discourse).

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4. It wasn't "economic anxiety" it was bigotry.

[Bucky]

5. Do you seriously think those two things can be uncoupled?

Desperate people look for someone to blame. That social psych 101.