Donald Trump surprised many over the past week with shockingly unqualified individuals being selected to run major facets of the government in his Cabinet. But the crew on “Morning Joe” argued on Friday that’s precisely the point: Trump and his administration don’t want to run the government, “They want to wreck the government.”
“What if the goal isn’t to run it, and the goal is in fact to ruin it? And what this is about is taking the president and his ideological betters at their word,” MSNBC analyst John Heilemann said on the program. “It’s about the thorough deconstruction of the democratic state.