On Thursday, celebrating the end of the government shutdown and the perceived Republican loss in that negotiation, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews went berserk while appearing on Alex Wagner's Now:

It’s not about values. It’s not about philosophy or partisanship. They’re all good, they’re how we run our country. It’s tactics and respect. And what the right, that small part of the Republican Party, maybe third of it, was willing to do, was show no respect for who’s president, for the voters that elected him.

Opposing the president’s agenda, according to Matthews, is disrespect for the country. But then he really gets going:

And they have this weird ‘we’ they refer to. ‘We the American people.’ Why does a group of people that always loses elections or tends to do lately, why do they call themselves ‘the American people’? Do they still count blacks as three-fifths of a vote? Is that the way to count it? Is that they way they count it? Because seriously, why do you say ‘we the American people’ when the president keeps getting re-elected, and you keep saying ‘Oh, we don’t like him. We don’t like him.’ Now how does that work? Why do they vote for him? So there’s this ‘we’ I’m very worried about, like ‘we’re more American than the rest, so we should get a higher weighting of who we are.’ I think it’s dangerous.

Last week, Matthews proclaimed that “black hole” was coded racial dog whistling. This week, it’s the word “we.” He’s running out of words in the dictionary.