Turning Point USA executive director Charlie Kirk was raked over the coals for comparing to the soldiers who stormed the beach at Normandy.
Compounding his over-the-top claims, which were labeled "idiotic," he made them on the 80th anniversary of the historic turning point in World War II.
In her column for AZCentral.com, journalist Laurie Roberts pounced on Kirk's performance at a TPUSA rally that took place at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, which also featured .
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As Roberts reported, Kirk told the assembled throng that MAGA is doing the same work done by the D-Day soldiers, insisting, "They were fighting against totalitarianism, fighting against a dictatorship. But 80 years later, if we are honest with ourselves, that very same totalitarianism is now here in this country," before adding, "The very same dictatorship that our leaders were fighting, our Greatest Generation was fighting against, are now here in this country.”
According to the Arizona columnist, Kirk was making a ridiculous analogy, with Roberts writing, "Right, because Joe Biden is just like Adolph Hitler. Because people who dress up in Trump regalia and wield a mean keyboard on social media are just like the soldiers and sailors and airmen who fought and scraped and bled and died as they came to the rescue of freedom and the world. Because waving Trump flags and spouting wild conspiracy theories is just like jumping neck-deep into water red with blood and floating bodies and dodging enemy fire.
She pointed then out: "Kirk has always been a self-assured know-it-all. Which is another way of saying he borders on the idiotic."
Noting that Kirk is known for spouting nonsense — including bizarrely asking "Does Taylor Swift have any eggs left?” — she pointed out, "now, he’s telling us MAGA is here to save the world from a brutal dictator — not Adolf but Joe."
"What utter and complete nonsense," Roberts concluded. "And on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, no less."
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