Chris Matthews came completely unglued on Thursday night. Here’s just a few of the descriptions he had for Donald Trump and his supporters: “Cult,” “violent purge,” “goose stepping,” and “dictator.” Regarding Trump’s comments made at the White House, Matthews suggested that, given a few less constitutional restrictions, the President would be preparing for violence: “As I jotted down Trump's words, I wondered what they would mean in a country where the targets of such invective were not protected by a Constitution such as ours.”

He added, “They sounded like the language of a dictator unleashing a violent purge that his targets would be unlikely to survive.” Matthews also raged, “President Trump spoke today with the venom of a black mamba.”

Earlier, while talking to Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown (OH), warned that the President and his supporters are like a North Korean Nazi cult. (You figure out that combination):

Senator, when we look at pictures from North Korea, just an example of a dictatorship, and you watch everybody wearing those high peaked hats and everybody smiling in unison or frowning in unison or marching in unison in goose step, and you watch the people in their so-called assembly, their congress so-called, they are all so frozen in fear of being seen as somehow out of line which is a very strict standard in that country. Are Republicans beginning to act like that? Fearful of not showing the right emotion, even in public? You have to be exuberant in this cult when he stands before them, it seems.

The impeachment trial and the last few weeks seem to have broken Matthews’s already loose grip on reality. On Tuesday, just prior to the State of the Union, the Hardball host compared Trump to Satan and lashed out at Americans considering reelecting the President. They, apparently, are making “a deal with the devil.”

For all the hyperbole about dictator Trump threatening constitutional freedoms, it was Barack Obama who prosecuted and spied on journalists, including Fox’s James Rosen.

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