WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED LAS VEGAS? Chris Matthews faces calls for resignation after comparing Sanders victory to Nazi invasion.

Comparing politicians and their supporters on the right to Nazis (and occasionally to North Koreans and the Khmer Rouge as a slight change up play) is what Matthews does on MSNBC. But it’s fun to watch the left freak out when he goes after one of their own for a change.

Update: Why is Anyone Surprised That Chris Matthews Went All Nazi Comparison About Bernie?

THE APOCALYPSE SHALL NOT INTERFERE WITH THE PRODUCTION OF LAWYERS: Mitchell Hamline to Train Peking Faculty to Deliver Online Legal Instruction to Replace Classes Cancelled Because of Coronavirus.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: The curious political cases where Democratic AGs jumped in to meddle.

TODAY IS THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE RAISING OF THE FLAG ON IOWA JIMA: Here’s the story behind that iconic World War II photo.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ACCELERATES: Bernie Sanders is The Corbynizer. A true socialist, Sanders has been poised on his Marx all his life for this moment:

The Democrats are now being unraveled by what Sanders might call the ‘contradictions of capitalism’. While the Democratic leadership was soaking Wall Street and Silicon Valley and pandering to the public sector unions, it outsourced the maintenance of its coalition to the radicals, and indulged them as they built their Potemkin villages of intersectionality. Now, as the party structure hollows out and the party leadership fails convincingly to answer Donald Trump, the radicals have the ground game and the ideology to remake the party from the bottom up. The result is a radically depraved version of the rainbow coalition, with Sanders as its Corbyn-style ‘Magic Grandpa’, a deceptively cuddly fellow traveler determined to ride their youthful exuberance into office.

When Magic Grandpa shakes the money tree, it’s not just that other people’s money falls out. A tangle of poisonous roots is also exposed. A coalition of coalitions has mobilized for Sanders: acrimonious initials like the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), Jew-baiting proxies like Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour, woke warriors like IfNotNow and the Justice Dems, and bongwater conspiracists like the Chapo Trap House chaps and the campus wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Bernie Sanders: Twenty Things You Didn’t Know About Him.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is sex the answer to your relationship woes?

The answer is generally “yes,” of course: “When the so-called ‘low-desire’ partner – who is, she is at pains to emphasise, just as likely to be a man or a woman – was encouraged to have sex they didn’t particularly want, not only did they end up enjoying themselves but the high-desire partner became a much nicer person to be around.”

Hey, “maintenance sex” has saved many a marriage. Including, as you can see, some InstaPundit readers’.

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CORONAVIRUS: US soldiers fighting to keep virus from base at ground zero of South Korean crisis.

OUCH!

This, seen on Facebook, was funny, too:

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Greyhound to stop allowing Border Patrol agents to conduct immigration checks on buses without warrant.

MEMBERS OF 1980 MIRACLE ON ICE TEAM JOIN PRESIDENT TRUMP AT VEGAS RALLY.

Related: A night in God’s country with Donald J. Trump.

HOW DARE YOU! Greta Thunberg humiliation: Activist mocked as she’s named after ‘annoying slimy bug.’

A decade from now, her Mommy Dearest style-memoirs are going to make for fascinating reading.

THIS WAS A BAD IDEA: Nearly 45 weeks pregnant, she wanted a “freebirth” with no doctors. Online groups convinced her it would be OK. “As well as she can figure, it started with the podcasts.”

CORONAVIRUS WARNING: UK told ‘distinct possibility’ half of Brits could be affected.

Related: Coronavirus: how will the NHS cope?

OKAY, WHO’S SURPRISED, REALLY? Video of the Day: Nicaragua’s murderous socialist dictator endorses Bernie Sanders.

BOB ZUBRIN: Elon Musk’s Plan To Settle Mars.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: For the Left, Morality Needs Muscle Behind It.

Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Mr. Trump. Mr. Obama, the first black man elected president, did not seem convinced. “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.

The only possibility of error was timing. With respect to the overall arc of history, how could that be wrong? With Brexit an accomplished fact, globalism under threat from a looming pandemic, and his own party in disarray, it might occur to Obama that his ideology was not 20 years too early so much as a hundred years too old. But it probably won’t. There is no refutation of  “this is a moral issue, my friends.”

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THE GROWING DESPERATION OF OUR RULING CLASS: The Lost 110 Words of Our Constitution. A friend on Facebook comments:

Well, here’s a Georgetown Law professor and national-security eminence speculating openly upon mechanisms for stripping conservative states of self-governance. In brief, the Fourteenth Amendment provides for reduction in representation for states that unjustly restrict the franchise; the received wisdom on the left is that voter-ID laws and comparable measures qualify; therefore states with them should have their national representation in the Congress reduced.

Set aside the empirical weakness of the case: specifically that voter-ID laws and the like have not appeared to suppress voting by anyone in any meaningful way, as the turnout numbers of the past decade amply demonstrate. Focus instead on the intent, which is that Acela-Corridor types are growing increasingly creative — and overt — in their efforts to find means of retaining and extending their rule over the rest of us.

If that means casting themselves in the role of Parliament and Crown c.1775, so be it.

Want to start a legit civil war? Go down this path. A violent response to such an effort would be entirely justified. I doubt, however, that it will ever be tried, for exactly that reason.

OLD AND BUSTED: Florida Man.

The New Hotness? Florida Peacock! Poop, Screams and Divebombing Birds: How Miami Plans to Deal With a Peacock Problem.

IF SO, IT SHOULD SPREAD MUCH MORE SLOWLY IN PLACES WHERE HYGIENE IS BETTER: Fecal transmission may be responsible for coronavirus’s rapid spread.

CRISIS IS INEVITABLE. DRAMA IS OPTIONAL: Software Project Management and the inevitable Crisis

This is another “day job” piece. There seems to be a lot of interest among the Instapundit readers on this stuff.

IT’S SCOTT ADAMS’* WORLD; WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT: We’re living in a golden age of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ journalism.

* No, not that Scott Adams, the other Scott Adams.