Tuesday night's election results were the culmination of many months of hard work put in by the left wing media, who pushed the leftist agenda, provided cover for radical leftist candidates, and tossed softballs to many of those candidates during 'interviews', which were more like campaign events. As results came in, many in the media celebrated, and perhaps no one more than CNN's Van Jones, who also made an outrageous analogy.
During the 10pm hour of CNN's Election Night In America, Anderson Cooper asked Senior Political Commentator Jones, "is this bigger than you hoped for?" Jones could hardly contain himself.
JONES: I'm happy, happy, happy. I'm so happy. Listen, this is way bigger, this is like Christmas and a birthday and the Easter Bunny and Halloween.
He then quickly revealed precisely why he was so ecstatic.
JONES: Like this is the repudiation of Trumpism that people have been hoping for, seeing American democracy stand up. Sometimes you have kleptocratic rulers that get in power and they ensconce themselves for decades. In America, 24 months later, knock it off, you don't want it.
And then came his insane analogy.
JONES: And, by the way, if you join a cult, at some point the cult leader takes you to Jonestown and tries to get you to drink the Kool-Aid. This is Jonestown for the Republican Party. They drank the Kool-Aid, and they have candidates that are dropping like flies across the country because they did not stand up to this guy when he was doing things that were wrong, when he was violating the law, when he was running over our system. They didn't stand up to him and they're paying the price.
It's Jonestown tonight. You join a cult, at some point, you go to Jonestown. That's where you are tonight, Republicans.
After Cooper jokingly suggested that Scott Jennings might want to check what's in his glass cup, he gave him the floor to respond to Jones. He showed great restraint in letting Jones analogize Republicans to people who drank poison and killed themselves.
JENNINGS: You realize I'm sitting right here. I can hear everything you're saying. I've been here the entire time.
Well, look, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. There's a political science term for what's happening. It's called a country ass-whooping. That's what's happening right now....
Look, you know, there's a lot of reasons for what's happening right now. The most immediate issue is cost of living and gas prices, and that is the bottom line. You could read into a lot of other things. You can be jubilant about this, that or the other. But at the end of the day, the American people have here and now concerns, and that's really the lesson you got to take away from this.
Jennings then put some much needed perspective on the results.
JENNINGS: I could only, to pick out a silver lining, look back at 2010. The Democrats in the White House, where Axe (David Axelrod) was, took a bit of a shellacking, I think President Obama called it, and he turned right around and learned from it and ended up getting reelected in 2012. There's a way to learn from nights like this. That's what the Republicans are going to have to do. Democrats are going to celebrate tonight. But Republicans have to wake up tomorrow and realize that, you know, the great thing about America is there's always another election, and the work starts tomorrow.
Jennings could have gone further. During Obama's first midterm election in 2010, Republicans gained 63 seats in the House and 6 in the Senate.
Soon after Jennings finished, Jones wanted back in and he got his wish.
JONES: But can I be happy right now for my party? I don't want to talk about Donald Trump anymore....
I'm not going to -- you're not going to steal my joy. I'm happy. We got the first gay man in the Senate Chris Pappas from New Hampshire. We got a black female senator for the first time out of Illinois, Juleanna Stratton. We got three black governors serving at the same time in America. We got the -- we're going to have a black speaker of the House. I'm happy. Donald Trump is miserable, and I'm happy tonight.
Ten years ago on the CNN set, Jones was remarkably unhappy over Trump winning: "This was a 'white-lash' against a changing country. It was a 'white-lash' against a black president, in part."
"whitelash against a black president."
