A Democratic senator said the Founding Fathers were “a little maniacal,” blaming them for some of the divisiveness she finds in the nation’s capital.
“Part of the problem is that our framers were a little maniacal in that if you look at other democracies around the world, when one party wins the congressional branch, they take the executive branch. Not in our country,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Host Joe Scarborough interrupted the senator, saying, “By the way, Claire, you have just provided the quote of the day on Twitter: ‘Our founding fathers were a little maniacal.’ ”
McCaskill replied, “They were. [The Founding Fathers] wanted us to have a divided government if the American people wanted to do that and that’s different [than other democracies].”
The senator, who has endorsed fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, said that if “Donald Trump would bother to read the Constitution he would understand that that means there is a special obligation to try to unite.”
“Hey listen, I think the Founding Fathers were geniuses. And that’s why I’m somebody who likes to preach the gospel of compromise. That’s what they wanted. They wanted us to compromise.”
