Vance makes the case for free speech in Europe
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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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.
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Breenan's statement makes me wonder if she flunked history classes. Nazi Germany was one of the most brutal dictatorships in history. Winston Churchill in a speech after becoming Prime Minister described the "odious apparatus of Nazi rule." Free speech was never part of the Nazi's odious apparatus.
Democrats hid their pet projects, special interest spending, and the resources behind their ideology in an unelected, long-unchecked, federal bureaucracy. We caught them & now is examining their waste, fraud, & abuse. This is why they lash-out at our common sense actions.
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