Please, Mr. Jones. Asshole away. We need some of that.

When he graduated law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in Washington, D.C., and moved to San Francisco instead.[11] He got involved with Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a group explicitly committed to revolutionary Marxist politics[12] whose points of unity were revolutionary democracy, revolutionary feminism, revolutionary internationalism, the central role of the working class, urban Marxism, and Third World Communism.[13] While with STORM, Jones actively began protesting "alleged police brutality".[11]
(Wikipedia)

He makes a great point here, but how am I supposed to take this guy seriously? Somebody shed some light.

I was just sayin to my g/f the other day, D's will listen to R's, try to argue their point calmly, and R's are more less just assholes. Not all R's mind you, Neo-Cons really, but yah. They're like grown up 5 year olds, LISTEN TO ME I'M LOUDER!! You're talking!? *plugs ears* LAH LAH LAH LALALAH LAH LAH... Grown up acting 5 = asshole.

/generalization

IMHO, it's not good enough to merely be an asshole, and that's not very progressive. Progressives are supposed to be smarter than conservatives, so how about we prove it

If you sow division, rather than offering everyone a path forward, you reap division, and Van Jones has now been forced out of his position. EIA.