Beto Compares Climate Changes Activists to D-Day Soldiers

When Beto O'Rourke entered the 2020 Democratic race, I indicated I was open to listening to what he had to say. However, comparing climate change activists to American soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day doesn't help:

The current president says he doesn’t believe in climate change…how could we, who used to be the indispensable nation, be the only country that has removed itself from any obligation to work with anyone on perhaps the most pressing problem? If you think about our leadership, those who proceeded us, right. Those who were on the beaches in Normandy, those who faced an existential threat to Western democracy and our way of life, they showed us the way.

Even if one disagrees with President Trump on the question of climate change, the idea that climate change activists bear any resemblance to what our soldiers endured on D-Day is sheer foolishness. More than 6,600 U.S. soldiers died on D-Day. This is more than died in the entire Iraq War. 

Needless to say, when climate change activists go to work they never have to wonder if they will live to see another day. Beto O'Rourke is going to have to do much better than this if he wants my vote. Strike one.