Matthews: Some on ‘Hard Left’ Just Want to Harm Trump, ‘Don’t Care’ About Shutdown’

[See NewsBusters for more.] The government reopened on Monday after Democrats reversed course, apparently failing to get their demands met on “ironclad commitments” about DACA. This prompted an admission from an unlikely source on the state of liberalism: Chris Matthews denounced some on the “hard left” who “don’t care” about the impact of the shutdown. As the Democratic hard line stance crumbled, the Hardball host conceded, “So there is still this split on the left of the Democratic Party.... A lot of Democrats on the left don't want to look like they're in bed with Republicans on any occasion!”