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Conservsative governance is so much easier because it requires less thinking, while Democrats carefully consider and think through the options, Chris Matthews thinks. That’s why President Obama is still weighing a travel ban for Ebola-stricken countries amid supposedly impulsive calls to implement one, the MSNBC sage says.

“In many ways, it replicates the larger problem liberals have — it’s more complicated to be a liberal,” he said on Friday’s Morning Joe. “To be conservative, you simply have to say, ‘Look, commonsense says segregate these people off from us — leper colony — keep away!’”

“On the Democratic side, I think there is sort of an implicit kind of sympathy — why do we want to do that to people?” Matthews added.