MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell decried the upper chamber of Congress as “anti-democratic” during his appearance Thursday on “The ReidOut.”
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O’Donnell considered it a “reasonable” question as Reid claimed the U.S. government refuses to act on majority views.
“We’re an anti-majoritarian government. It’s designed to be anti-majoritarian on purpose,” Reid said. “The only agreements that had to be made were between this old white guy and that old white guy.”
“Case closed, the Senate is a disaster,” O’Donnell said.
“It was a structural disaster. It was a disaster at birth, but it got away with it for a very long time, this notion of two per state,” he said. “The Founders never dreamed there was going to be a place with this name California with all of these Spanish place names and was going to have a population that approached the size of France. They didn’t think they were going to have states like that.”
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On April 20, during MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” O’Donnell said the statement, “A vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy democracy” might “be a fact.” The panel on his show agreed that journalists “can’t be neutral” with regard to Republicans anymore.
