“You are witnessing the rise of an American demagogue,” said Van Jones.
He was not referring to himself.
The CNN talking head was reacting to something Vivek Ramaswamy said during the last Republican presidential candidates’ forum — another one lacking the main candidate, the overwhelming favorite Donald Trump.
Van Jones, who is African-American, called Vivek, who is Indian-American, “a very, very despicable person.”
At issue is something the Republican candidate discussed: “Great Replacement Theory,” which is the notion that politicians and other insiders are using a variety of means to discourage white people from having babies while encouraging brown people to have
The theory is plenty controversial, in no small part because a few racists have listed it as an excuse to “justify” mass shootings.
But also controversial? It looks like it is more than a theory, it is a plan.
Vivek pointed this out in a tweet. He produced a video from two years ago in which Van Jones himself outlined the “theory” as a strategy: “The request from the racial justice left: we want the white majority to go from being a majority to being a minority and like it. That’s a tough request, and change is hard.”
Yet Jones regards this “request” as something it would be demagogic — even racist — to refuse.
Jones’s leftism does not look like “racial justice” so much as a racial vendetta.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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