Jon Stewart( Leibowitz) and Steven Levitksky: The Constitution is ‘The Problem’
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The US Constitution is “the problem” with America today, so says Jon Stuart Leibowitz and Harvard professor Steven Levitksky.Jon Stewart to Harvard Prof. Steven Levitsky: “Is [The Constitution] the document that actually got us into this mess?”
Levitsky: “It’s done us a lot of good, but it is also part of the problem today”
Later Levitsky adds “the electoral college was an improvisation, an experiment” pic.twitter.com/cUZYTKgeLI— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 12, 2024
From Newsbusters, “Stewart Asks If The Constitution ‘Got Us Into This Mess’ “:
Jon Stewart welcomed Harvard Prof. Steven Levitsky to Comedy Central and Monday’s edition of The Daily Show to promote his new book, Tyranny of the Minority, where he wondered if the Constitution is to blame for the “mess” the country finds itself in.
Stewart began, “The Constitution is really our, you know, touchstone. Is that the document that actually got us into this mess?”
By “mess,” the duo meant that Donald Trump won in 2016 and may win again, as Levitsky explained, “The Constitution, as you say, is a brilliant document… It is the world’s oldest written constitution. It’s done us a lot of good, but it is also part of the problem today. We, a majority of Americans, support democracy. A majority of Americans support the really interesting experiment with multiracial democracy that we are evolving into in the 21st century. A majority of Americans every day since Donald Trump came down the golden escalator have opposed Trump.”
Levitsky added that “we have a Constitution that protects, that enables, and that empowers an authoritarian minority party, and that’s a problem.”