The View host Joy Behar appeared on CNN’s Van Jones Show Saturday evening to hawk her anti-Trump book released nearly a year ago, The Great Gasbag, and give her advice to the Democrat party on how to deal with Trump and win elections.
Bringing up former President Obama’s comments against Trump and Republicans from the campaign trail last week, Jones admitted Obama wasn’t “as tough on Trump” as Behar was, but asked if she was still pleased with what he said.
“I love Barack Obama,” Behar stated before arguing that Democrats needed to follow Trump’s example instead of Michelle Obama’s, and go “lower,” to appeal to voters.
“I say when they go low, we should go lower,” she urged, saying she didn’t mean to behave like a “rat scurrying around” but to speak directly to voters like Trump does.
“He doesn't take prisoners and the Democrats, they tend to be politically correct. I think that you also, Van, have to be very nice about it all and I don't -- I'm not. I'm not. And so I don't think everybody has to go, you know, high, high like that. No. Come down to where, to my level,” Behar advised.
The CNN host whined he was just too nice for his own good. “My concern is, I just don't think I can out-hate the haters. I just don't know how to out divide the dividers,” he lamented.
After she ranted about the “cowardly” Republican leadership who supported Trump, she claimed that if Republicans actually elected “tea party” candidates, then they would lose in the Midterms:
BEHAR: I mean, I see people like Lindsey Graham going back and forth on this, because he wants to keep his job. Well, maybe he shouldn't keep his job.
JONES: You think the country would be better off if Lindsey Graham lost his job?
BEHAR: A tea party guy would come in probably. Right?
JONES: Yes.
BEHAR: And then a Democrat would win. Good.
Behar repeated again that Democrats needed to adopt Trump’s tactics, and go “lower” by appealing to fears,(as if this wasn’t already a strategy Democrats employed):
I’d say, ‘Listen, America, you're going to lose your health care. America, you're going to lose your -- not making anymore money. The economy's great but Mr. rich guy who lives over here, by the way, where we are right now, those apartments are going for $20,30,40 100 million, those are the ones getting the tax breaks. Not you. Not you.’ So that's what they need to be telling people.
