Definitely Patton was trying to swim against the tide. It's hard to actually contemplate what he was suggesting.
In essence he wanted to drag the war in Europe on for many more years. How was the USSR to be knocked out of this war? Another march on Moscow? Hope the tiny amount of A-Bombs produced could tilt the balance?
Europe was close to famine, its cities wrecked, its farms untended, its factories destroyed or worn out. America itself was glad the end had arrived in Europe - its soldiers happy to have survived. Yet here was Patton contemplating throwing them all into another huge conflagration with no real clear-cut outcome or endgame.
I've always had doubts about Patton as a force commander. At a strategic and political level he was a non-entity - an embarrassment.