Chris Matthews' request to Gary Johnson was NOT name a foreign world leader; it was name a foreign world leader THAT HE ADMIRES.
Not to excuse him, but THAT is a much more difficult question, particularly politically, to answer - try it from the perspective of someone running for office.
There are plenty of other reasons to denigrate Johnson as well as anyone else who holds onto Libertarian nonsense that they should have discarded (along with their Ayn Rand collection) back when they were 16 years old.
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Not to excuse him, but THAT is a much more difficult question, particularly politically, to answer - try it from the perspective of someone running for office.
There are plenty of other reasons to denigrate Johnson as well as anyone else who holds onto Libertarian nonsense that they should have discarded (along with their Ayn Rand collection) back when they were 16 years old.