Van Jones Issues Dire Warning: The Tea Party Will Use Power to 'Decimate Us

As The Blaze previously reported, liberals assembled this weekend in Providence, Rhode Island, for Netroots Nation, an annual conference aimed at promoting the progressive cause. Closing out the event was Van Jones, the former White House official who has distinguished himself as being especially hostile toward the American right. In his address, the one-time green jobs adviser warned the audience about the Tea Party and encouraged them to fight diligently to ensure their policies are enacted.

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Here's just a sampling of Jones' words:

"If the Tea Party is allowed to score a trifecta, their ideas already are corrupting the Supreme Court, you see that with Scalia's antics, they already have half of the Congress. If they get the rest...and the White House...if the Tea Party governs America -- if this time next year, you are living in a government run by the Tea Party -- let me suggest to you that they might use power a little bit differently than we did. When they get power, they use it to decimate us..."

Jones also charged the Tea Party with "decapitating" unions. In the end, he went on to encourage progressives to push their values and to set their sights on December, when important budget issues will be under consideration.

Watch the video full video below, (Tea Party specifics start around 14:00):