Joe Biden Celebrates 80th D-Day Anniversary In Normandy

The Greatest Generation #DDay pic.twitter.com/7rsmXutepF

— Ahab (@Ahab4K) June 6, 2024

100 year old Marine breaks down

“This is not the country we fought for!”

“This is not what those boys died for” pic.twitter.com/t96nkydI3s

— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) June 6, 2024

WWII VET: “I feel like a foreigner in my own country lots of times. I don’t like it. It makes my heart real heavy. There’s too much Hollywood going on in Washington…” pic.twitter.com/DGybS23bA2

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 6, 2024

Is this what they were dying for? pic.twitter.com/Dr6E3yGFGS

— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) June 6, 2024

Today is D-Day. Would the brave men in Normandy storm the beach had they seen what America has become? pic.twitter.com/kQMFfwveur

— 9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) June 6, 2024

?Did Biden shit his pants AGAIN?? pic.twitter.com/ulHrBkwZP6

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 6, 2024

Trump says that Israel needs to “finish the job” in Gaza and expresses concern that people have forgotten about October 7th, equating them to Holocaust deniers.

Trump then complains that Israel has lost its influence in Congress, and pledges to restore it if elected.

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In between Joe Biden in Normandy, Donald Trump on FOX News and Mitch McConnell in the New York Times railing about isolationists and the lessons of the 1930s, today is one of those days when I feel like tuning out of politics for a decade or so until all of these people have passed away.

New York Times:

On this day in 1944, the liberation of Western Europe began with immense sacrifice. In a tribute delivered 40 years later from a Normandy cliff, President Ronald Reagan reminded us that “the boys of Pointe du Hoc” were “heroes who helped end a war.” That last detail is worth some reflection because we are in danger of forgetting why it matters.

American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines joined allies and took the fight to the Axis powers not as a first instinct, but as a last resort. They ended a war that the free world’s inaction had left them no choice but to fight.

Generations have taken pride in the triumph of the West’s wartime bravery and ingenuity, from the assembly lines to the front lines. We reflect less often on the fact that the world was plunged into war, and millions of innocents died, because European powers and the United States met the rise of a militant authoritarian with appeasement or naïve neglect in the first place.

We forget how influential isolationists persuaded millions of Americans that the fate of allies and partners mattered little to our own security and prosperity. We gloss over the powerful political forces that downplayed growing danger, resisted providing assistance to allies and partners, and tried to limit America’s ability to defend its national interests.

Of course, Americans heard much less from our disgraced isolationists after the attack on Pearl Harbor. …

See also the debate over Ukraine aid.

Most elected politicians cater to the views of older voters. They are permanently stuck in the 1930s and 1940s even though World War II is now closer to the Civil War than our own times.