On Wednesday afternoon, shortly after socialist Senator Bernie Sanders announced he would be dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd hoped that the far-left lawmaker’s radical “vision” would live on and even be implemented in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I do want to get at the policy legacy here....the Bernie Sanders ideas, the Bernie Sanders proposals, may be meeting their moment at a time when there is an appetite for government to be more involved,” Todd proclaimed early in the 1:00 p.m. ET hour. He then turned to Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt and wondered: “Do you imagine his ideas become more talked about on Capitol Hill, at least and does he play that role? Or is it somebody else? Is it AOC or is it other people that carry the baton?”

Hunt responded: “I think he’s definitely going to have a role to play. I do think a lot of the younger supporters have really looked to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez as potentially the future of the movement.”

She also seemed to gloat over Republicans supporting emergency government relief efforts:

I mean, we’re all now old enough to remember when Republicans were talking about how Democrats were going to nominate a socialist. That was before a Republican president signed a $2.2 trillion rescue package that really amounts to the government trying to take on a role it’s never had to do before....who would have thought that Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans would have been spearheading the kind of bill that they passed just a week or so ago.

Todd concluded: “I just have a feeling you and I are going to have a conversation in a couple of years and say, boy, you had Bernie Sanders trumpeting a lot of ideas. The pandemic hits and suddenly the Bernie Sanders vision suddenly became an answer for a lot of Americans.”

Even when liberal politicians lose in a campaign, the media try to find ways to still declare them the winner – even if it means exploiting a global health crisis.

Here is a transcript of the April 8 exchange: