Posted on 02/17/2025 10:15:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
The panic that gripped Europe’s political elites after JD 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.”
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I am amazed that so many people do not understand that the NAZIS were leftists that were almost as far left as the communists that the “progressives” prefer. These EU leaders are closer to the ideology of the NAZIs than the pro-freedom AfD.
Agreed. Likewise, I often wonder why no one calls out Iran for naming their country from Persia to Iran as a way to state that they’re the master Aryan race.
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The line I use, that VP JD should have used, is, “You’re going to have to explain that. I don’t think we had the same History professor.”
The Party name is literally "National Socialist German Workers' Party". That's as Left as a name can get, lol
Their censorship has kept them from hearing these basic things.
Their history and political science professors were all leftists who taught them this.
And the iron vice of leftism did not just survive unscathed, it has gone from strength to strength until now.
Thanks a lot from lovers of freedom to Mr. VP Vance. You are just great 👍🏻
Good for Vance.
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