Speaker 1: The Democrats quest to explain to themselves why they lost
Speaker 1: continued recently at something called the People's Summit in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Van Jones Obama's Greens are decided to blame Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: He blasted her and her campaign for tricking Democrats into
Speaker 1: fighting among themselves over the wrong issues. Van Jones said
Speaker 1: the Clinton team based their campaign on a false narrative.
Speaker 1: They acted as if they had to choose between racial
Speaker 1: justice for people of color or the white working class.
Speaker 1: He called it the stupidest false choice he'd ever heard of.
Speaker 1: He also laid into the campaign for spending all that
Speaker 1: money on themselves, polsters, and consultants instead of campaigning. He said,
Speaker 1: they took a billion dollars, they set it on fire.
Speaker 1: They called it a campaign. He argued the money should
Speaker 1: have been given back to the people and Democrats should
Speaker 1: stop getting rich off of other people struggles. Now, He's
Speaker 1: mostly right, Hillary did squander a billion dollars, which came
Speaker 1: primarily from super rich donors, not the people. He's also
Speaker 1: right that the political establishment class got rich, very rich.
Speaker 1: Even if they lose election after election, they get rich.
Speaker 1: It happens in both parties. But his complaint that Hillary
Speaker 1: campaigned on identity politics. Come on, Van, that's what the
Speaker 1: whole Democrat Party has run on for fifty years. Hillary
Speaker 1: was just following the script, except this time it didn't work.
Speaker 1: Because she was such a lousy candidate, nothing would have
Speaker 1: helped get over it.