Patton and D-Day parallel with Trump and Republicans

Donald Trump will have played the role of Patton in the Calais invasion ruse of the Republicans “D-Day offensive” otherwise known as the Presidential election.

This article may be as controversial as my article a couple of years ago when I equated Walter Williams of the TV series Breaking Bad with President Obama. Comparing a fictional meth maker/drug dealer with the President as a purveyor of an addictive but harmful ideology was just too much for my boss and the article was banned from my newspaper and the sister newspapers that ran my Speakin' Out articles. Thankfully, Canada Free Press didn't have a problem with publishing it. So here we go: time to make comparisons of the World War II D-Day invasion of France with a 2016 Republican potential Presidential victory against the Democrats. A hero of the Allies’ victorious North Africa campaign in World War II, General George S. Patton went out of favor with Allied Commander General Eisenhower during the Sicily campaign that followed. Patton put his pride ahead of his troops well-being to beat the troops of his British counterpart, General Bernard Montgomery, to Messina, the city that represented the ultimate conquest of Sicily. But the last straw for Eisenhower and the Allied Command was a much-publicized event where Patton slapped a shell-shocked soldier in a military hospital, accusing the soldier of cowardice. While Patton had to publicly apologize for what he did, he was also, in effect, demoted by Allied commander Eisenhower. Plans had been to have General Patton play a major role in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. But Eisenhower changed plans, temporarily relieving Patton of military command as punishment for his actions.

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However, making use of Patton's fame and the fear of him by the enemy (and the troops under his command, for that matter), Allied Command concocted a false invasion plan, code name Quicksilver, to be leaked to the Germans that had Patton leading forces into France at the Port of Calais. All the while the actual invasion of Normandy was planned and carried out. The elaborate ruse worked and a sizable number of German occupation forces in France were diverted from Normandy, probably saving many thousands of Allied soldiers from being casualties in the invasion. While I don't in any way assign the same stature to Trump that I have for General Patton, Trump’s significance in the Republican campaign for President is of the same proportion as Patton’s in the Allies’ war against the Axis powers. And I don’t consider the events in my scenario with Trump and Cruz to be a product of planning, but one of circumstances leading to an eventual conclusion. Here’s the scenario: While Donald Trump keeps the focus of media attention on himself, rather than on his number one opponent Ted Cruz in the competition for the Republican Presidential candidacy, Cruz stays relatively out of the spotlight working the grassroots ground game to add to his delegate count for the national convention. Not that the Left doesn’t propagandize against Cruz when they have the chance, but Trump is like a lightening rod for the Left’s attack machine, attracting an overwhelming majority of the protests and diatribes directed against the Republicans. So, while a Trump nomination seems inevitable to many, with the right circumstances Cruz still has a chance at it. And if Cruz is ultimately the nominee, Republicans will be in a much stronger position to defeat the Democrat nominee, since the Democrats will have poured so many of their resources into opposing The Donald. Thus Donald Trump will have played the role of Patton in the Calais invasion ruse of the Republicans “D-Day offensive” otherwise known as the Presidential election.