Royce White, the 2024 Republican nominee for Senate in Minnesota, wrote in a social media post two years ago that “the bad guys won in WWII.”
White’s controversial opinion on World War II, first noted by Heartland Signal, is still up.
“It dawned on me today,” he wrote in a November 2020 post on X, then known as Twitter. “The bad guys won in WWII. There were no ‘good guys’ in that war. The controlling interests had a jump ball. If you look closely, you see the link between liberalism and communism in the Allied forces. Remember what Gen. Patton said and why they capped him.”
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Yet VoteVets, a progressive political action committee, wasn’t buying it.
“This isn’t just bizarre—it’s reprehensible,” the group wrote in response to White’s post. “His unhinged rants and attacks on his own party show exactly why the GOP’s candidate problem is a threat to us all.”
This sounds like the sort of thing a highschool sophomore would say after realizing that the allies had flaws too. How embarrassing…
To be honest, this is the least unhinged take I’ve heard from a rightwinger.
All sides committed crimes against humanity in that war. There definitely were no good guys.
To the tankies, the USSR committed genocides besides the Holodomor, they also massacred the complete intelligentsia of Poland in an effort to break their nation. We will never forget Katyn.
And to the USians, interning your Japanese citizens counts. Your war crimes got Dönitz acquitted. And why are you still running a gulag in Guantanamo?
As a European civilian, you certainly had opportunities to die to a Nazi death squad, Red Army rapists or a US terror bombing campaign. Not that many European nations were better.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he thinks the bad guys won the American Civil War, too…
