Chris Matthews on Trump Protests: What Kind Of Statement Is There To Make? They Lost

Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date November 10, 2016

MSNBC's Chris Matthews reacts to people protesting the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.

"I'm always open to the economic argument," Matthews said on the Thursday broadcast of his show Hardball. "I do accept that Marxist tradition, really, which is a good one which is always try to explain elections by economics. And I think it always works."

"How about those protestors," Matthews said. "What would you say to those kids? Most of them in their 20s. I think they do go to school during the day. I think they came out of NYC last night up from downtown in the [West] Village and they marched all the way past Trump Tower to make their statement."

"What kind of a statement is it really there to make?" Matthews asked. "They lost."

"Look it's their First Amendment right," Karine Jean-Pierre of MoveOn.org said. "The country is grieving. Something happened on Tuesday night that people were not anticipating. Donald Trump."

"Regarding these protesters, by the way, these protesters are not exercising their First Amendment rights. They have every right to speak. They don't have a right to stop traffic. They don't have a right to get in the way of commerce. That's not the First Amendment. That's being a spoiled brat. And by the way, what are they protesting democracy itself when they block traffic? We had an election." guest Steve Cortez, a Trump supporter, said.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...they_lost.html

MoveOn.Org and Paid Agitators. Whether all of these people, young people, young adults are paid or not, is this how they are going to behave in life - break things, burn things, shout obscenities, disobey authority when things don't go their way.

What kind of local and state governments allow cities and property to be destroyed and they do nothing. It is happening way too often.

Law and Order.

It has been encouraged and condoned by the Obama administration.

These people aren't Americans. Americans don't protest a free and fair election because they lost.

Now they're trying to hang their hat on Hillary getting more of the popular vote. But in an electorate of this size, her margin was tiny. And if the shoe were on the other foot, you know what they'd be saying to Trump.