‘Queer Eye’ Star Doesn’t Cave To The Mob After His Comments About Republicans

One of the guys from the makeover show Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness, dared to step a toe off the Leftist reservation saying Democrats need to offer centrist candidates that could draw GOP voters who don’t like the way the Party is going and that *GASP* all Republicans aren’t racist.

Luckily a lot to extreme right people won yesterday, meaning that if we can come up w center left candidates we can take back the house & senate, not to mention many state legislatures. It is so important for the left to not go too left or we are done for.

— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) August 15, 2018

Not all republicans are racist. Just like not all democrars are evil, we have to stop demonizing eachother. Unless you’re actually racist then you suck, Trump is Racist – not all his voters are necessarily we gotta remember we are all in this together.

— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) August 15, 2018

Of course, Van Ness’s comments based on logic and the reality that most Americans fall somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum was too much for leftist Twitter to handle.

This is the worst political advice ever. Progressive candidates that actually stand for something are how we win. Running towards the center with Clinton just gave us 4 years of Trump – let’s not be silly again. People want universal healthcare… period.

— ಠ_ಠ (@jizzywinks) August 15, 2018

Jonathan, I encourage you to look into what happened when a raft of Centrist and Conservative Democrats were elected in 2006. (Hint: they’re the reason the ACA didn’t have a Public Option.) Really rethink this position. It’s bad. It’s really bad.

— antifa is good (@BobbyLibby) August 15, 2018

The handwringing and vitriol that anyone would suggest the way to get Republican voters to tick the box for a Democrat on voting day is to meet them somewhere in the middle and offer the “C” word: Compromise.

To his credit, Van Ness hasn’t backed down. As well he shouldn’t and doesn’t need to. He’s being practical and talking about the logical way that both sides can work together to try and get a government that better represents the majority of Americans and not the fringes.

Because 2006 circumstance & 2018 are so similar , smh. Govt healthcare for paves the way for a red wave. Abolish ICE sure of course, free healthcare however is a price tag people will not go for, it’s clear plain and simple. Universal healthcare won’t happen w out compromise.

— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) August 15, 2018

Also if you’re upset at a tweet I made leave gurl bai! Being able to compromise is what’s missing from both sides of the American political situation & the sooner we all get to a place of mutual understanding the sooner we will get out of this mess.

— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) August 15, 2018

Van Ness even followed up his defense of the rational arguments he made in a video.

“I decided to tweet political things today and you know that can go one of two ways,” he said in the clip posted on Twitter. “Left people are not necessarily inherently evil and right people are not necessarily inherently evil and our ability to notice gray area and to notice what compromise means and how much compromise has led us to where we are is important.”

“We have to be able to not demonize the right.”

https://t.co/BJWbeiqyIR

— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) August 15, 2018

While Van Ness is addressing Democrats, all parties and all sides could do a lot by thinking about what he’s saying and not writing him off.

Good on him for not allowing others to shut him up or apologize for saying what he thinks. As Andrew Breitbart famously asked, apologize for what?

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