“As a Democrat, I am proud that my party isn’t hypocritical.”

—Van Jones, CNN’s reliable race-baiting progressive propagandist.

And shameless, too! That statement this morning in a post election autopsywith morning host John Berman (a partisan ally) and Scott Jennings, CNN’s token conservative made my head explode, as you can see above.

The topic was Harris’s assurances to Trump that there would be an orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and that Democrats would accept the will of the voters. Van (and Berman) were pointing out the contrast with Trump’s reaction after the 2020 election.

The gall of these people continues to break previous records. Democrats were fully amped up to challenge the election results if Trump won. Jamie Raskin made it clear that plans were in place to “fight” if the election results showed Trump squeaking out a win. Democrats never accepted Trump’s 2016 election as legitimate. Their supporters rioted on Inauguration Day. They investigated him, impeached him twice, didn’t extend to him even the basic traditional deference and respect every previous elected President since Lincoln had received.

To prevent Trump from putting Democrats in a position where they would have to transfer power, they used extreme fearmongering rhetoric designed to make citizens view him as a threat to the nation, resulting in two assassination attempts. They were trying to put him in prison right up to election day. An excessive fine in a civil case was engineered to cripple his finances, making a Presidential run more difficult.

As I noted yesterday, Trump was accused by Democrats of inciting a riot (and an “insurrection”) by exhorting his followers to “fight,” and Kamala Harris used the exact same rallying cry yesterday. Democrats, including Harris and Walz, cheered on the Black Lives Matter rioting, which went on for weeks and cost lives and property, but they have sought extreme penalties for participants in the January 6, 2021 single day riot at the Capitol.

This is only one area—there are so, so many more—in which the Democratic party has engaged is exactly the conduct they have accused Trump and the Republicans of engaging in, notably…

… using the tactics of fascists. But they are proud of not being hypocrites. They haven’t fought the election results because they have no choice. Trumps victory was unequivocal and beyond challenge.

Routine double standards and obvious gaslighting are among the reasons the Democrats got clobbered this week. I wonder if they are capable of learning? Jones, a pure, ruthless propagandist, certainly is not.