MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas declared on Wednesday that Americans have a “freedom obsession” when speaking about the coronavirus pandemic during an appearance on “Morning Joe.”“One of the fundamental questions to me is, what’s going to be our relationship to government, the idea of government after this? We kind of look at it at three levels this week,” Giridharadas said. NBC NEWS CHAIRMAN ANDY LACK EXITS AMID REPORTS PEACOCK NETWORK IS BEING INVESTIGATED“There’s a primordial American tradition going back to the founders of being freedom-obsessed, even though we’re a country founded on slavery and genocide,” Giridharadas continued. I think the most important thing that could come out of this is realizing the government is not the biggest threat to our liberty,” Giridharadas said. However, the MSNBC contributor noticed the backlash and doubled down in a series of tweets.

Source: Fox News May 06, 2020 16:41 UTC