'Horrific ideas' at GOP debate are making America 'dumber': CNN's Van Jones

CNN analyst Van Jones on Thursday found himself appalled by the performances of Republican candidates at Wednesday night's presidential primary debate, and he said that it showed the GOP had fully embraced cruelty.

While much of the focus of post-debate analysis has been on how far the candidates went in attacking the record of former President Donald Trump, whom polls show is by far the frontrunner for the nomination, Jones zeroed in on the policy proposals that candidates were pitching.

"What I saw was a debate that was normalizing stuff that's shocking," he said. "The idea that you're going to attack the babies of immigrants -- tell them they don't belong, strip away citizenship -- is a completely bonkers idea that just went down like ice cream last night. The idea you're going to abandon Ukraine. The idea you're going to make it impossible for people who are transgender to get medical benefits. These are horrific ideas, not just bad ideas, that are being mainstreamed in the process."

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Jones concluded by saying the GOP debate showed that "the country is not getting dumber but worse during every one of these debates."

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