"Kanye West Should Not Be President" - Chris Hayes On the Role of Parties In A Democracy

Chris Hayes is the host of "All In With Chris Hayes," a nightly hour-long show on MSNBC that airs at 8 p.m. He wrote "Twilight of the Elites" in 2011, and a second book "A Colony in a Nation" in 2017.

"The most important social project we must undertake in the wake of the fail decade," he wrote in "Twilight of the Elites," "is reconstructing our institutions so that we once against feel comfortable trusting them."

I asked Chris about whether political parties should have more say over who they nominate in their primaries. He said he has thought about that question a lot, and has wondered how he would handle it on his own show if someone like Kanye West actually ran for president as a Democrat. He indicated he would feel the obligation to speak out against such a nominee, but also implied that he knew it would be difficult to do so given the public's attitudes about what they think of as democratic and undemocratic.

Hayes has his own podcast, which is called "Why Is This Happening?" We talked here a little about why he does a podcast given his already heavy work load and large platform.

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