As liberals began to pick up the pieces on Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected the next president of the United States, MSNBC host Chris Matthews provided a succinct embodiment of a liberal’s range of emotions over the course of a special two-hour Hardball from fear to downright strange behavior.

Minutes into the start of the show at 6:00 p.m. Eastern, Matthews seemed to have forgotten that the fact that much of the news media is liberal like him when he predicted that, if Vice President Joe Biden had run for president, he would have been mercilessly attacked by the news media.

“But then again, Biden, because of his gaffes over the years would have been pummeled, I think, by the regular media. The mainstream media would have pummeled the guy as they had done for years,” bloviated Matthews.

Moving to the rampant fears of violence being committed and mass disturbances (but of course ignore the far-left anti-Trump protests), MSNBC guest Simon Marks expressed his far that Trump’s victory will perpetuate “right-wing, anti-immigrant sentiment all over Europe” while Matthews alluded to Muslim immigrants being beaten up.

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Matthews did veer into the strange category, but not before ruling that “Hillary Clinton delivered a powerful and I thought wonderful concession speech this morning offering support for the country’s next president” while expressing sadness at the disappoint on Bill Clinton’s face on Wednesday.

The MSNBC pundit turned seconds later to Washington Post writer Anne Gearan and admitted that he had “walked down the streets of Manhattan up here and because I'm on this network and people know my attitudes about things, they come up to me and they're scared depressed, despaired, desperate even.”

He added that they were creepily “almost clinging” to him, making for “quite an experience I've never had before....but people are scared.”

Within that same segment, Matthews opined that it would behoove Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Senate to not wait and confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court: “Maybe the best job for both of them is to put Merrick Garland in there and move on because I don't think they’re going to the right of him or to the left of him.”

If the bizarre factor hadn’t already been turned up to high, Matthews looked around later in the 7:00 p.m. Eastern hour and informed his guests that he’s struggling with life on planet Earth:

I'm still having a hard time getting myself used to standing on this Earth right now. This is a different Earth today than it was 24 hours ago. It's different place. It just is different. The people I was in the room there at the Hillary hotel tonight — I thought it was interesting. They downgraded the hotel for the concession speech.....another one was proud unhappiness, which I love in politics because it shows true commitment and a loss of something they all counted on as reality.

Going back to policy to round out this compilation of Matthews’s two hour show, he seemed to have forgotten the fact that a number of Trump’s policy proposals could enlarge the size of government and the debt when he hinted that it’d be ideal for Trump to pull a Franklin D. Roosevelt and not follow his campaign promises from one of his first presidential elections:

Well, just remember, Franklin Roosevelt ran in '32 when we were desperate in the depths of the Depression — Great Depression saying my solution to the Great Depression is I'm going to reduce the number of federal employees and reduce the size of government, reduce the deficits. Roosevelt did the absolute opposite and it worked.

The relevant portions of the transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on November 9 can be found below.