Twitter is alive today with thousands of tweets calling on Chris Matthews to resign or MSNBC to fire him because of what he said about Bernie Sanders' victory in Nevada yesterday. Matthews said that Bernie's big lead is as shocking as the fall of France to the Germans was in World War II. According to Twitter, this comparison is anti-Semitic. After all, Bernie's parents were Jewish (he's an atheist), so using any analogy to a Nazi victory has to be anti-Semitic, right?
Not right.
The point is that the fall of France in 1940 was a major shock. It less than 25 years after World War I when the Germans faced the French and British (and eventually the USA) in eastern France for more than 4 years. In 1940, the French fell in about 6 weeks from the start of the actual German offensive. No one expected France's collapse in this way.
It's not anti-Semitic to use this historical analogy. The "moderate" Democrats are collapsing at the moment. They may come back, but the idea that an avowed socialist who isn't even an actual Democrat might become the party's nominee is a major shock for Matthews.
What's more shocking than Bernie's success, though, is the idea that any of the remaining Dem candidates are "moderate". They all want to raise taxes to soak the rich. Those tax increases will surely hit the middle class as well if they are to come up with the resources required for all the free stuff the Dems want to give away. The Dems all want to tear down the US border and end enforcement of our immigration laws. They all want to destroy or severely restrict America's world-leading energy industry. None of them seems to have thought about the dire and profound effect that their policies would have on the economy. They're not moderates. They are either far leftists or total morons who don't understand what they are proposing. Bernie's just honest.
Not right.
The point is that the fall of France in 1940 was a major shock. It less than 25 years after World War I when the Germans faced the French and British (and eventually the USA) in eastern France for more than 4 years. In 1940, the French fell in about 6 weeks from the start of the actual German offensive. No one expected France's collapse in this way.
It's not anti-Semitic to use this historical analogy. The "moderate" Democrats are collapsing at the moment. They may come back, but the idea that an avowed socialist who isn't even an actual Democrat might become the party's nominee is a major shock for Matthews.
What's more shocking than Bernie's success, though, is the idea that any of the remaining Dem candidates are "moderate". They all want to raise taxes to soak the rich. Those tax increases will surely hit the middle class as well if they are to come up with the resources required for all the free stuff the Dems want to give away. The Dems all want to tear down the US border and end enforcement of our immigration laws. They all want to destroy or severely restrict America's world-leading energy industry. None of them seems to have thought about the dire and profound effect that their policies would have on the economy. They're not moderates. They are either far leftists or total morons who don't understand what they are proposing. Bernie's just honest.
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