“We'll always romanticize the past. We did not have this great, glorious era where everything was bipartisan and everything worked, but there was room for bipartisanship. And there was room for government to be more functional. The country itself was forced by all the upheaval of the '90s to take sides, to chose one or the other.”

American political journalist, writer, and television presenter

Steve Kornacki is an American political journalist, writer, and television presenter. He is a national political correspondent for NBC News and has become widely associated with election coverage on cable news. Kornacki has written for Salon, The New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Boston Globe, and The Daily Beast. He also served as the multimedia anchor for much of MSNBC's "The Place for Politics" campaign coverage, leading the network's analysis of voting results on U.S. Election Day from 2014 to 2024.