Van Jones on Biden’s Declining Health: Dems Have to Apologize to the American People that We Were Part of Something that Wasn’t on the Up and Up

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JONES: “You know, in 2024 (sic), we got beat by W., John Kerry got swift-boated by Karl Rove, and suddenly we're looking at a president that we didn't like, George W. Bush, with a war that we thought was being fought badly, constitutional crisis, and triple-red, red Senate, House and White House. It took three and a half years before Barack Obama emerged with a message. What did we do in the meantime? We looked inside. Donors got reorganized as a Democracy Alliance in 2005. Bloggers got reorganized as Huffington Post in 2005. Black voters got organized under Color of Change in 2005. And there was a deep internal reflection. I do not see that happening. I see people, rather than reorganizing, rethink — Center for American Progress took off in 2005 and came up with a new set of ideas for Democrats. That has to happen. Before we get out here and start trying to tell people why they should like us, we need to look in the mirror, reorganize ourselves, get bad people and bad ideas out of the way, and then we will be able to come forward in the midterm. But right now, we need to apologize to American people that we were part of something that wasn't on the up and up."