Bernie Sanders is on track to win the 2020 Democratic nomination, and no one is angrier about it than the people at MSNBC.

The Vermont senator is too radical and too polarizing to be the nominee, and it is insane that more Democratic primary voters don't see it that way, according to anchors such as Chris Matthews and Joy Reid.

What? Did they really think the Democratic Party’s leftward shift reached its limit with President Barack Obama, the man whom these same hosts heralded as the dawn of a bright, brave new era in American politics? You would have to be an idiot or an MSNBC anchor to believe the party's embrace of a more radical identity would stop at “hope and change.” But I repeat myself.

“The man who is leading in most of the polls throughout the country is not only not a registered Democrat,” MSNBC’s Joy Reid complained Saturday before Sanders clinched a decisive victory in the Nevada caucuses, “has not registered as a Democrat, has essentially refused to register as a Democrat, and is now tweeted this morning, it’s trending, that the Democratic establishment … will not stop him from getting the nomination.”

She added, “He is presenting what he is doing as a hostile takeover, not a merger with the party that he caucuses within the Senate.”

Reid then wondered whether a civil war would break out in the Democratic Party should Sanders be denied the nomination.

“He is saying this morning,” the host fretted, “in his own Twitter feed, under his own name, that the Democratic establishment will not stand in his way.”

She added, “Essentially sort of kicking to the curb 65 million people who voted for Hillary Clinton, Obama Democrats, people who consider themselves lifelong Democrats. Is he not one of them? Is he one of them, or is he running against them?”

Reid did not leave it at that. She went on to ask what Democratic Party officials plan to do to stop Sanders's steady march to the nomination.

“They're turning the tables over, and they don't care what the potential result is. They're the hungriest,” she said. “No one is as hungry, angry, enraged, and determined as Sanders voters. Democrats need to sober up and figure out what the hell they are going to do about that.”

Elsewhere at MSNBC, Matthews compared the Vermont lawmaker’s victory in Nevada to the Nazi invasion of France in World War II.

“It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat,” said the host. “I think it's a little late to stop him, and that's the problem. It's pretty much over unless that changes.”

He added, “I'm reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940. And the general calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says, ‘How can it be? You got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It's over.’”

Then there is MSNBC’s favorite anti-Republican “Republican” Nicolle Wallace, who accused Sanders of using “dark arts” on the media to advance his goals. She also referred to his base as a “squeaky, angry minority."

“I have no idea what voters think about anything anymore,” Wallace added, admitting something that most knew about her years ago.

If you are surprised by MSNBC’s overwrought anti-Sanders commentaries, you shouldn’t be. The Sanders campaign has long been the source of great consternation at the left-wing cable news network, which has all but endorsed Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic primary. In fact, tensions between Sanders and the network reached a boiling point recently when he reportedly berated NBC and MSNBC executives over their negative coverage of his campaign.

Sanders has a reason to be angry. After all, it was an MSNBC contributor who accused the senator last Friday of trotting out “misfit black girls” to lend credibility to his 2020 campaign, adding further that “racist, liberal whites seem to love them some Bernie Sanders."

The people at MSNBC really do not want Sanders to be their nominee. Their collective freak-out Saturday as the Vermont lawmaker cruised to an easy victory in Nevada proved that much.