He began by focusing his ire on the other 2020 Democrats facing off against Sanders, expressing hope that they “are actually going to deliver” the attacks on him that he’s “full of it.”…

Matthews then dropped the hammer, demanding that they come out against socialism and insist that “this country will never go that direction, and by the way we’ll lose 49 states.”

He capped off this rant by telling Heilemann that he personally witnessed the 1972 Democratic National Convention “when the people on the left were dancing in glee” for having “defeated the moderates,” but “went on to lose 49 states in their glee, so that could happen again.”