AND IN REFERENCE TO THAT LAST ITEM:  The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.

YOU KNOW AND I KNOW THAT YOU NEED THIS IN ALL SORTS OF SITUATIONS:  Since 2015 There Have Been 289 Media Approved Attacks on Trump Supporters.

NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. IT’S COMMIEPHOBIA. I’VE HAD IT ALL OF MY ADULT LIFE. THERE IS NO SHAME IN HATING PEOPLE POSSESSED BY AN IDEOLOGY THAT HAS KILLED 100 MILLION HUMAN BEINGS. IT’S JUST RATIONAL:  Berniephobia.

THIS ONLY MAKES SENSE IF HE PLEAD GUILTY TO BIZARRE STUPIDITY:  Jussie Smollett Pleads Not Guilty to Six Felony Charges of Disorderly Conduct.

NAH. DON’T COUNT TRUMP OUT YET:  ALERT: Coronavirus merges with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

BECAUSE I’VE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH:  Unicorn Farts Is No Basis For a System of Government.

TRUMP’S WORST NIGHTMARE: Coronavirus tanks economy and hands race to socialist Bernie Sanders.

Related: Trump asking Congress for $2.5 billion to fight coronavirus: White House.

Earlier: Wall Street Tumbles Monday Amid Anxiety On Coronavirus, Bernie Sanders.

UPDATE: Zoom, Clorox, and Other Stocks Rising on Coronavirus Fears.

(Updated and bumped. First link corrected also.)

WELL, I HOPE HE’S RIGHT: Jonathan Chait: If Democrats Aren’t Terrified of Bernie, They’re Not Paying Attention. I mean, nominating an overt commie with a public track record decades long? What could go wrong?

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IF YOU LIVE IN THIS WORLD, YOU’RE FEELING THE CHANGE OF THE GUARD: Eight elected officials announce party switch, join Mississippi Republican Party.

Related: Poll: Democrats underperforming with black voters. But don’t get cocky. November is a long time away.

BUT WE’RE ALWAYS BEING TOLD THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR NONPARTISAN FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY: NC Democratic Congressional Candidate Polls People on Firing Federal Workers Who Support Trump.

WELL, THEY’RE RIGHT. IT’S LIKE SAYING THAT HITLER DID GIVE US THE AUTOBAHNS, AFTER ALL: Miami Democrats Who Represent Cuban Districts Label Bernie Sanders’ Defense of Fidel Castro ‘Absolutely Unacceptable.’

Then again:

SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76: Joe Biden falsely claims he never said South Carolina was his firewall.

Related: Biden ad hits Bernie for having almost primaried Obama as new South Carolina poll shows him surging.

If Bernie wins South Carolina, Joe’s done. If Bernie loses South Carolina narrowly, I don’t think it does much of anything to change his momentum. But if Biden wins by the sort of impressively large margin that Sanders just pulled in Nevada, the shock and massive media hype about a Biden comeback might be meaningful in the Super Tuesday states. Hype is key here — because Biden doesn’t have the dough to advertise in those states, he needs to compensate with lots of flattering media coverage. And the only way he gets that is either with a surprisingly large margin on Saturday or a bravura debate performance tomorrow night. And that second one ain’t happening, needless to say. This is Joe Biden we’re talking about.

Heh, indeed.™

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Loser Establishment Is Rightfully Terrified of Ric Grenell.

OPEN THREAD: Share your insight and expertise.

JIM TREACHER: ‘I Have Never Seen’ Trump ‘Eat a Vegetable’: CNN Finds Novel #Resistance Angle for India Trip.

This is CNN.

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EYES ON THE BALL. While Coronavirus rages, I got this in the mail:

I’ve complained about CDC multitasking and mission creep before. They should focus on infectious disease, not behavior.

#WEINSTEINDIDNTKILLHIMSELF: Harvey Weinstein Taken to Bellevue Hospital With Chest Pains.

TRANSPARENCY: Is Governor Newsom’s Office Trying to Keep Documents Secret Over Rushed Passage of Utilities’ Bailout? “State officials, under the direction of Gov. Newsom, are engaged in a pattern of delaying or denying the public access to relevant public records.”

ANDREW MCCARTHY: Making Sense of the Harvey Weinstein Verdict.

BLOOMBERG GOES NEGATIVE:

It says something — something bad — about the Democratic primary that the safest attack on Bernie isn’t that he’s a commie, but that he actually supported something that’s in the Constitution.

UPDATE: Can we hope for some Mutual Assured Destruction here?

I love the irony of the NRA wrecking two Dem candidacies . . .

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Weinstein Cleared Of All Charges After Revealing He Was Born This Way.

Who are we to judge someone who self-identifies as an innocent man?

YOU DON’T HAVE TO FALL IN LOVE, YOU JUST HAVE TO FALL IN LINE: Chris Matthews Issues On-Air Apology to Bernie Sanders: ‘I Was Wrong.’

UPDATE: MSNBC Prepares to Pivot: “With Bernie rally coverage, Bernie-friendly guests, and a mandate to ‘seek out more smart, pro-Sanders voices,’ the cable net confronts a new reality: ‘He’s winning,’ says a source.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: A Coronavirus Pandemic Is Looking A Lot More Likely. Here’s What That Means.

Harvard scientist predicts coronavirus will infect up to 70 percent of humanity.

WHO says it’s too early to declare a coronavirus pandemic: ‘Now is the time to prepare’.

Coronavirus’s Global Spread May Not Be Contained, WHO Says.

As coronavirus spreads, the US is not fully prepared, but here is how we can be.

What’s it like to be in Italy amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Citi, Credit Suisse among banks curbing Italy trips on coronavirus fears.

Dazed Italy Bickers and Seeks Reason for Coronavirus Spread.

Some Apple retail stores re-open in China after coronavirus closings.

Coronavirus fear sickens stock market, spreads need to diversify manufacturing.

Wall Street plunges as coronavirus spreads.

Global stock markets plunge on coronavirus fears. Though to be fair, I wonder how much the rise of Bernie has to do with this too.

Coronavirus and what needs to be done to get in front of global pandemics.

UPDATE: Yeah.