The mark of a good political pundit is to take obvious statements and make them sound profound. Van Jones, the CNN analyst, might be the reigning champ of that particular skill set. Take what he told a post-election panel at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit earlier this month regarding the Democrats’ inability to understand the modern media environment. “I’m telling you guys, the mainstream has become fringe and the fringe has become mainstream,” Jones said. “There are platforms, there are people out there that are getting 14 million streams, and we’re on cable news getting 1 or 2 million. There’s a whole world out there. Donald Trump understood that and we didn’t.” (Actually, during some hours on CNN, they’re lucky to break six figures in the key news demo, but whatever… the point stands.)