Harry Reid is not stupid. You do not get to be Senate Majority Leader by being stupid.
He might be corrupt, vindictive, petty, manipulative, power-hungry, and plain evil, but he is not stupid.
Then I’ll vote for “plain evil”, because there’s only one other reason that a man of his age and experience (which excludes the possibility of ignorance) might conclude that government is “inherently good”, and that’s stupidity.