“It was like an oasis – I didn’t realize I had been in a spiritual desert until they created that oasis on that stage. And they did a beautiful job tonight,” said longtime Democratic activist and CNN commentator Van Jones after watching Michelle and Barack Obama’s speeches Tuesday night.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Seriously this guy is so goddamned extra. It doesn’t matter whether or not he actually realizes just how badly he overdoes this. Like can’t he tone it down, maybe just a little, even if he genuinely did make a 180 emotionally over the past two months? It just seems like he’s hell-bent on embodying some of the worst stereotypes of libs by breaking down on live television repeatedly during Biden’s collapse and then shifting into this quasi-religious elation.