We've been cataloging how the left has taken to labeling every candidate it doesn't like and every policy it opposes a "Threat to democracy." But even we were surprised to see the U.S. Constitution itself added to the list of these threats.
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said over the weekend that: "The Constitution has some profoundly anti-democratic, which is to say anti-democracy components, like the Electoral College and the two senators per state, for example."
O'Donnell was talking to Jamelle Bouie, a New York Timers columnist, who after nodding his head in agreement with O'Donnell, added that "I think we've witnessed over the last couple years especially with the attempt to overturn the election, the ways that the constitution, its rules, can actually be used against what Americans think identify as a Democracy."
Last year, at a conference sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, Bouie said "The threat to U.S. democracy is coming from inside the house. The Constitution itself is the problem."
Over the weekend at CNN, as Jim Acosta was interviewing a couple of Harvard professors about a new "Very important" book they've written bashing the Constitution, the chyron at the bottom of the screen blared "Scholars warn outdated Constitution has put democracy at risk."
Unlike today's pundits and "Scholars," the architects of the Constitution knew enough about the inherent dangers of democracy to avoid creating one.
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