MSNBC reporter Garrett Haake on Wednesday called Hillary Clinton’s failure to become president in spite of winning the popular vote an example of “the institutions having broken down” in the United States.

Haake spoke about the ongoing debate in Washington over civility in political discourse, following recent incidents where Trump administration officials have been jeered or even expelled from public places because of their politics. The most recent example was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao being heckled as they left a Georgetown event on Tuesday.

Responding to McConnell’s remarks Wednesday hoping…