About every 4-6 years Van Jones gets it right! Funny how the math works out.
My blunt translation of: "Van Jones: “
Democrats are coming across as annoying and offensive and out-of-touch. I think there is a message here.”" -->> The people simply don't like what the Democrats are "
selling". That is the message. It is also the reason that the Republicans won in Virginia, specifically the successful campaign of Glenn Youngkin to win the governor's race. He was responding to what the people wanted.
The Democratic excuses I have heard from various sound bytes was that the Democrats had failed in passing their legislation which they asserted that the public wanted. So they are proposing to double-down on that approach as the solution for their election losses. This boils down to the belief that the Democrats unilaterally get to define what the public wants. If the public does not accept what the Democrats propose then they are deplorable, not to be listened to.
Of course, it doesn't help the Democrats to be spewing racism, hate, endless autocratic Covid mandates which are now resulting in many people losing their jobs and irritating many people even if they do not lose their jobs, and using the legal system to deprive citizens of their right of free speech and to arrest those deemed "
domestic terrorists" as a means of political repression.