I don’t know this for a fact but I’m reasonably certain that Matthews, back in ’16 when Donald “very fine people on both sides” Trump was sewing up the nomination, never dared compare his rise to that of the Nazis. But that is exactly what he did tonight when it became clear Sanders would win:
The most jaw-dropping [comment] came from MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who said he was reading about the fall of France to the Nazis in 1940, and it reminded him of what was going on with Sanders appearing more likely to win the nomination.
“I’m reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the Gen. [Louis] Renault calls up [British Prime Minister Winston] Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says, ‘How can it be? You got the greatest army in Europe. How could it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.’ So I had that suppressed feeling,” Matthews said.
And let’s be perfectly clear about this:
Sanders’ spokesman Mike Casca tweeted after the segment that he “never thought part of my job would be pleading with a national news network to stop likening the campaign of a jewish presidential candidate whose family was wiped out by the nazis to the third reich. but here we are.”
This is simply unacceptable.