With his usual amount of pretentiousness and faux solemnity, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell kicked off Wednesday’s edition of The Last Word by attempting to wax poetic about how Frederick Douglass would have supported Kamala Harris and how “some white men” do not share his belief that a woman can be president of the United States.
Douglass has nothing to do with the choice of Donald Trump or Harris. The only reason to invoke him is to make some nonsensical argument about how a universally admired historical figure would support your current and unrelated partisan agenda, which is exactly what O’Donnell tried to do, “Frederick Douglass would be so proud and admiring of Kamala Harris. He did not just fight for the right to vote for black men, when only white men could vote. He also fought for the right to vote for all women. When he was editor of the…
