Sleepy Republican Ben Carson keeps comparing modern struggles to World War II. Why does he keep doing this? Is that the only part of history he knows?
Previous comparisons have been insulting and misinformed (like when he said Jews wouldn’t have died in the Holocaust if they had had guns). The latest instance, however, is just insultingly dumb.
At a talk at the National Press Club on Friday, he compared his presidential campaign to D-Day—the day over 9,000 soldiers were killed or wounded invading Nazi-occupied France—because they stood up for their country and so will Ben Carson.
“What if on D-Day our soldiers invading the beaches of Normandy had seen their colleagues being cut down, a hundred bodies laying in the sand, a thousand bodies laying in the sand. What if they had been frightened and turned back? Well, I guarantee you they were frightened, but they didn’t turn back. They stepped over the bodies of their colleagues, knowing in many cases that they would never see their homeland or their loved ones again. And they stormed those Axis troops, and they took that beach, and they died.”