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The panic that gripped Europe’s political elites after J.D. Vance delivered some overdue home truths in Munich found expression back home in the most embarrassing question ever asked by a network anchor.
Our vice president had accused smug Eurocrats at the Munich Security Conference of abandoning free speech and allowing unchecked migration to roil their countries, warned them to respect their voters and told them America should not bear the primary burden of funding Europe’s security.
“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump,” he said. “You need democratic mandates to accomplish anything of value.”
Cue apoplexy here and abroad.
The critiques of Vance’s speech all seemed deliberately to miss the point, but the most ridiculous of all came from Vance’s old sparring partner, CBS anchor Margaret Brennan.
While trying to excoriate Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vance’s message Sunday, Brennan blamed the Nazi Holocaust on . . . wait for it . . . too much free speech.
Vance made his appalling remarks, she huffed, while “he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”
Huh? After a momentary insanity check of his interlocutor, Rubio patiently put her straight on the history: “Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” he said. “The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal, because they hated Jews and they hated minorities . . . There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were the sole and only party that governed that country. So that’s not an accurate reflection of history.”
To say the least.
Of course, Brennan got it backward. Censorship efforts by the Weimar Republic in Germany backfired and actually fueled the rise of the Nazi party. Then, when the Nazis took power, they burned books and seized control of all forms of media to suppress dissent and pump out propaganda on orders of the minister of “Public Enlightenment,” Joseph Goebbels.
Anti-Trump outlets like The New York Times and MSNBC mirrored the sneering European attacks on Vance, accusing him of “echoing” Russian propaganda.
“Vance cozies up to Germany’s far-right, scolds E.U. leaders for not engaging with extremists,” read one headline.
‘Fundamental values’
What Vance really was doing was warning our European friends about the dark cloud of censorship that is descending on their continent as political elites try to hide their failure to heed the people’s wishes, especially on unvetted, unwanted mass migration.
Vance was deadly serious when he said that America cannot ally with people who don’t share our values of free expression. He warned that the greatest threat facing Europe right now is the “threat from within.”
“The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.”
He brought up the elephant in the room, which everyone else seemed to want to ignore: a “horrendous attack” in Munich the day before when an Afghan migrant and alleged jihadist rammed a car into a crowd of people, killing a 2-year-old girl and her mother and injuring dozens, the fifth migrant mass attack in less than a year in Germany.
“We’re very moved,” said Vance, “and our thoughts and prayers are with Munich, and everybody affected by the evil inflicted on this beautiful community.”
But that attack was the result of “conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent and the world over the span of a decade” to impose mass migration on their countries, against the wishes of the people, he pointed out.
“No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants. But you know what they did vote for? In England, they voted for Brexit . . . And more and more all over Europe, they are voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out-of-control migration,” he said, adding, “I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most surefire way to destroy democracy.”
He cited a litany of shocking anti-democratic examples to prove his point.
EU Commission “commissars’” plan to shut down social media during times of civil unrest and conduct police raids on people suspected of spreading “misogyny” on the Internet.
In the United Kingdom a military veteran was charged with “the heinous crime of standing 50 metres from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes.”
Destroying democracy
Vance then cited former European Commissioner Thierry Breton’s threat to cancel elections that don’t accord with elite priorities.
If the right-wing populist, anti-immigration AfD party were to win the upcoming elections in Germany, the election could simply be canceled by the European Union, “as was done in Romania,” Breton blithely told French TV last month.
“We did it in Romania and we will obviously have to do it if necessary in Germany,” he said. “We have to enforce this law to protect our democracies in Europe.”
In other words, Europe has to destroy democracy to save it.
Breton is the same floppy-haired Euro-tyrant who, when he was in office as Europe’s chief bureaucrat, last August at the height of the US presidential campaign, sent a threatening letter to Elon Musk to try to derail his X interview with Donald Trump and demanding “compliance” with EU regulations on “hate speech.”
It took a certain amount of chutzpah, therefore, for the Eurocrats to accuse Vance of “blatant election interference in the [German] election campaign in favor of far-right AfD,” as Carl Bildt, co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations and former Swedish prime minister put it.
No, Vance did Europe a favor with his blunt talk.
It can either heed his advice or retreat back into the darkest errors of its past, the tragedy that silly Margaret Brennan inadvertently invoked.