Van Jones on Trump’s Speech: ‘I Think the World Is Adrift’

‘I don’t know who leads the world now’

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JONES: "I just want to say that he -- he has authored now a form of patriotism unrecognizable to the left or the right or to the world. For the right he says, patriotic protectionism can lead to prosperity. That is not what conservatives say about protectionism. So, he believes that -- that -- that patriotic protectionism is a pathway to prosperity. That's not what the conservatives think." 
COOPER: "It used to be though." 
JONES: "That’s not -- that's not what you think nowadays. He also says to the left, very interesting, patriotism is a cure for prejudice. Now, that is an interesting approach, we’ll see, but that’s not the normal position that you have about patriotism. And to the world he actually now says, the United States is now a radically ordinary country. We will be petty, we will be small. We will be focused on our own interest and we’re abandoning now that inspirational city on the hill position that Reagan talked about. So, this is a very — it is a very patriotic speech but it is patriotism unrecognizable, I think to the world, to the left, to the right, and I don’t know where it leads us but I think the world is now adrift. I don’t know who leads the world now." 

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