Honestly, I wanted to stay out of this.
It all started when Tucker Carlson interviewed Darryl Cooper, the man behind the popular "Martyr Made" account on X.
Cooper has some, well, interesting takes.
Yeah, "interesting takes." That's the phrase we'll go with.
Cooper went on Tucker Carlson's podcast to talk about some of the mistakes (I'm putting it politely) that the Allies made during the living hell known as WW2.
He noted that FDR and Churchill were not spotless (I'm putting it politely again). One example was their alliance with Stalin, whose body count was much higher than Hitler's.
The entire podcast was not only about WW2, but it was this specific section set off the firestorm:
... Particularly when Elon shared the podcast in a now-deleted post because he found it interesting:
When I saw Tucker's interview, I shrugged and moved on with my life. It had many dumb points and a few good ones. It didn't shatter the foundations of my identity to have two men talking on the internet about history.
But then said internet turned into a swarm of poo-flinging monkeys and the rhetoric ramped up to DEFCON 1.
This is the best visual for my X feed this week:
Holy moly it must have been a fun day to be a leftist, watching right-wing commentators and personalities tearing each other apart, with one side scrambling over top of each other to prove that Hitler and the Holocaust were worse than the Prince of Darkness himself, with the other side scrambling to profess their love for Hitler (yeah, the neo-Nazis really are out there, ladies and gentlemen).
The reason I wanted to stay out of this discussion is because I don't know Cooper from Adam, I haven't watched the entire podcast, and I'm not old enough or educated enough on the particulars of WW2 to weigh in with authority.
As Americans, our identity as a world superpower came out of WW2, not to mention the blood that was required to purchase victory; therefore, many Americans do not tolerate dissent that paints our side in any negative light, like old Romans obsessed with the victories of the first Punic War against the Carthaginians. We were the good guys: FULL STOP.
Other men want only to paint us as the bad guys, and think that they're super smart if they just assume that the other side was actually good instead.
As for me, I was born almost a half-century after the death of Hitler. My grandparents are too young to have served in that struggle. And I have grown up in the secular, liberal, globalist order that came out of Allied victory, where every American president except one has been busy bombing other nations since my birth, and now one major party platform is running on aborting the kids and transing the ones that survive.
As Western civilization collapses within and without, I have no rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia to obscure how we got to this point. Having travelled the world, I have seen how God's blessing upon America has been used for great good, but very great evil as well (and God will hold us to account one day).
Because I am younger but have learned that my opinion is not needed on all matters, I held my tongue. When in doubt, do not join the poo-flinging and do not be cringe (this last part is my friend Adam Ford's most sacred rule).
I knew that an older man with a biblical, godly worldview and a gift for teaching would weigh in.
And behold, he did! This is Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho: A man I have come to respect over four years of listening to him preach.
Take the mic, Pastor Doug:
Save those thoughts for the next time the circus comes to town.
