So as far as the Holocaust and the millions slaughtered by Nazism‚ well, as Cooper seems to toss off, the chaos of death sometimes got a bit out of hand and beyond the ability of well-meaning Wehrmacht officers to cope with. And so, we the Allies were wrong even to try the architects of the mass death on the Eastern Front and the Holocaust at Nuremberg:
Well, and that’s just it. I think that Nuremberg, like, is that sacrificial ritual. And I might mean that literally, but I’m not married to it. If people don’t want to take it literally, they don’t have to, but I probably do. And I think it was that sacrificial ritual that was the founding event of the current global order. It brought us all back together. It told us who the bad guys were, why they are, in a binary sense, different from and opposed to us, which makes us the good guys. And now we can all again. Vicksburg celebrated the 4 July.
We then are supposedly not to blame the German army or even its overseers as much as Churchill who “started” the war?
Or are the culprits perhaps the incompetent Russian army of 1941–42, who by losing “overwhelmed” the ability of their conquerors to keep their prisoners alive? Or perhaps they claim that in retrospect the roughly three million Germans killed on the Eastern Front somehow justified the barbarity of their behavior?
In their view, we slaughtered good Germans and Austrians and their Eastern European allies for the benefit of Communists (and Jews?), and then created a false narrative to prettify that reality ever since?
(Do you remember the actor Ray Teal [of later Bonanza sheriff fame] as Mr. Mollett in The Best Years of Our Lives, who peddles such theories to the wounded and handless Homer, and as a result is punched out by a soon-to-be-fired Fred Derry/Dana Andrews?)
Second, paleos seem sickened not just by the hard, multicultural leftwing takeover of our institutions and the resulting debasement of our culture, but also by pathologies like rising crime, politicized media and corporations, deteriorating race relations, wokism, abortion on demand, open borders, etc. Instead, they see all of this as the inevitable postwar endpoint of an innately flawed America that they are not particularly fond of anymore, at least in its present incarnation—and thus they sometimes rival the oikophobia of the 1960s Left or the current woke Democratic base.
In our current racialized framework, paleos see white Christian Westerners beset by nonwhite, non-Christian, and non-Western enemies both at home and abroad. The United States is, in their view, increasingly becoming irredeemable. Indeed, those who were defeated by us in World War II or perhaps hostile to us afterward, thereby don’t suffer from our contamination and are supposedly now better than us?
Well, I think we ran an experiment that tells us pretty well what that is. And we didn’t know we were running the experiment at the time. But you had the Iron Curtain set up, Europe and all the countries behind it that were not exposed to incessant American world order and Western propaganda for 70 years. They don’t have these same problems…
America, in this view of the Allies’ role in World War II and its aftermath, supposedly did great harm to “good” nations abroad and to “good” people at home, given that it is in the clutches of communists, Zionists, media cabals, and billionaire globalist anti-patriots.
Thus, World War II (as well as World War I) was supposedly the beginning of the end, as the Western (white) world committed collective suicide by killing each other in the millions and leaving traditional Europe in ruins—due to Allied and American culpability. Or so I imagine is the subtext of these particular revisionists of World War II.
But then again elsewhere in his interview, Cooper lectures that a victimized defeated Germany came out better than a victorious Britain in the end. You see Britain was ruined by the forces that created the Anglo-American liberal triumphalist narrative—almost as if Churchill’s resistance to Hitler is somehow responsible for our own contemporary pathologies:
It’s depressing as hell, though. Also wonderful in a way, but it’s going away. But they lost, at least you could say they lost two world wars in a row. Britain won two world wars in a row. And if anything, it’s more degraded than Germany. So just to take it back to the first thing I said, and I’ll shut up and let you answer, but if Churchill is a hero, how come there are British girls begging for drugs on the streets of London? And the place is, you know, London is not majority English now. Like what?
Note that Cooper recently posted two photos: one of trans-people in ridiculous clothes reenacting the Last Supper at the Olympics in Paris—juxtaposed with a second picture of a victorious Hitler with his military and civilian Nazi entourage touring a conquered Paris after their June 1940 conquest. His caption under the Nazi crowd read: “Infinitely preferable in every way.”
Every way? As in what exactly?
So, we are to think the postmodern decadence and blasphemy of a few trans buffoonish actors is worse than the Nazi conquest of Europe, the millions of dead, and the Holocaust that followed it?
In the revisionist narrative, Hitler should have been appeased and cajoled to go after communists, Jewish Bolsheviks, and other non-European common enemies in the East, rather than the U.S. and the rest of the Western Allies siding with his enemies such as the Soviet Union to fight against a fellow-Westerner and his 80-million-strong German nation of good Europeans.
Third, in the paleo worldview, conservative, even autocratic white European Christians, of whom Putin is supposedly the exemplar, are our natural allies. And thus, we are making the same mistakes as we did in World War II any time we cite Munich and the dangers of Hitler to warn against Russian aggression.
In the case of Ukraine, paleos share empathy for Putin as a misunderstood conservative nationalist figure. As far as the Israelis go, paleos have little empathy for Israel (or, to be fair, also perhaps for the Islamist Hamas and Iran), and they either wish all of them to fight to their hearts’ delight and keep us out of it, or believe that a bloody nose will rein in Israel and prevent it from going places that will get us in trouble.
All of the above, I think, helps explain Cooper’s otherwise weird main theme of castigating Churchill, and debunking the Allies’ legacy of victory over evil:
And it’s justified every conflict, really, since the Second World War, everybody’s the new Hitler, right? And so, it’s very valuable in that sense. But then also it really did become the founding myth of the global order that we’re all living in now, right? …
What follows, then, is a contorted narrative that by needs must whitewash Hitler, and cite, sporadically criticize, but ultimately downplay Hitler’s crimes against humanity and empathize with Germany as an aggrieved party:
You shall not look at this topic and try to understand how the Germans saw the world: like how the whole thing from the First World War on up to the very end of the war, how these people might have genuinely felt like they were the ones under attack, that they were the ones being victimized by their neighbors and by the allied powers.
In current terms, paleos see America as largely lost and see the catalysts for the decline of the West in the two European world wars (but especially our 1941–45 effort to destroy Hitler) that we should have avoided, or at least not helped the agents of our destruction.
Conservatives should be aware of these revisionists not because they are completely unhinged. Rather, they focus on a tiny kernel of truth in their vision of a troubled, postmodern America, and seek thereby to allure conservatives into their historical narratives that they have padded, distorted, and corrupted.
And thus, by birthing historical untruths about World War II, they seek to transmogrify the past into a quite scary contemporary worldview.
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