“I mean, he [Sanders] takes it [the Democratic Party] over, he sets the direction of the future of the party,” Matthews continued. “Maybe they’d rather wait four years and put in the Democrat that they like.” ...

Former Hillary Clinton adviser and Democratic Party strategist Adrienne Elrod eagerly agreed.

“That’s the big question, right?” Elrod said, “There are people that are concerned–strategists that are concerned–that Bernie Sanders being at the top of the ticket will force us to lose the House. I don’t necessarily think that’s the case.”

“How about the future?” Matthews interjected.

“It’s early,” Elrod continued.

“How about losing the future?” Matthews prodded again.

“It’s early,” Elrod repeated.

Matthews, not quite finished, later compared Sanders’ crushing victory in Nevada–and prospect of winning the nomination–to the fall of the French army at the Maginot Line during World War II. Or, in simpler terms–he compared the Jewish presidential candidate’s win to the triumph of Nazism over the Third French Republic.