MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle Directly Compares Defeating Trump to Americans Rallying to ‘Save Europe from Hitler’

MSNBC’s morning-after coverage of the Super Tuesday primary elections hinged towards the dramatic at times. Morning Joe panelist Mike Barnicle compared the need to defeat former President Donald Trump to America rallying to defeat Adolf Hitler during WWII.

The panel discussed Trump’s acceptance speech Tuesday evening, during which he described the apparently grim state of the country. Barnicle described the message he was sending as “stunningly pessimistic,” but a point co-host Joe Scarborough made a bit earlier about the American spirit during WWII got him thinking:

I was reading again, rereading Rick Atkinson’s trilogy, the first part of his trilogy on World War II, [An] Army at Dawn. And on the morning of June 6th, 1944, a young lieutenant, James Rudder from Texas, led the Second Airborne Battalion up the sides of a cliff called Pointe du Hoc, a straight-up cliff, 125 feet to a German pillbox. And he went right at the Germans, right at the Germans. Fifty percent casualty rate. Why did they do it? They did it because we were Americans, and we were there to save Europe from Hitler.

And now all of these years later, we have to get together as a country and save the country from the threat that Donald Trump proposes. Donald Trump actually has said, we all know this, that he could solve the war in Ukraine in one day. And we know how he would solve it. He would say, “Vlad, it’s yours.” He would turn it over to one of our fiercest enemies. That’s what we have to watch out for. That’s what we have to protect. We have to protect the country that we love, that we believe in. Not the country that he describes so negatively.

Now Barnicle’s comparison may be in full defiance of Godwin’s Law, an internet adage that states that once someone compares someone or something to Hitler or Nazis, they have lost the argument. However, the creator of that “law,” Mike Godwin, has since stated on the record that the comparison is fair.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.