Vice President JD Vance gave an amazing speech in Germany on Friday, calling upon leaders to join America in the quest for greater freedoms and ending unfettered illegal immigration.
Some of the European elites in the audience did not appreciate Vance’s finer points.
During an appearance on FOX News on Friday night, conservative scholar Victor Davis Hanson explained why these EU leaders didn’t get it and his analysis was pretty funny.
Partial transcript via the Western Lensman on Twitter/X:
“They’re the international version of the Democrats.”
“Vance was saying we’re the West. This is the same culture…join us.”
“We went through this dark age with Biden. It doesn’t work. Open borders don’t work. Illegal immigration doesn’t work. Censorship doesn’t work. Deindustrialization doesn’t work. Green power doesn’t work.”
“So they don’t want to hear that. They would rather be ideologically pure and poor than be affluent and apostates.”
Here’s the video:
NEW: VDH slams Euro leaders’ response to JD Vance speech: “They’re the international version of the Democrats.”
“Vance was saying we’re the West. This is the same culture…join us.”
“We went through this dark age with Biden. It doesn’t work. Open borders don’t work. Illegal… pic.twitter.com/Dlswa0dles
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 15, 2025
Hanson made similar comments on Newsmax. Via the Daily Caller:
“Donald Trump and the MAGA movement is basically not only saving the United States, it’s saving the West. It’s a model for them, and they can’t handle that. So they can’t stand JD Vance. What he says to them, they know it’s true, and they say, ‘Oh my God, I don’t want to hear it,’” Hanson said. “They’re our collective Maxine Waters, you know what I mean?”
The EU, Hanson said, should follow Trump’s lead by embracing bipartisanship and implementing policies that they see benefiting the U.S.
“If they were wise, make constructive criticism, join Trump and try to be bipartisan, and they know they should do what we’re doing. They know they should close the borders, open up free speech. Their GDP is anemic, deregulate, cut taxes, but they can’t do it,” Hanson said. “And it’s like for them the malady, or I should say the drug or the cure, is worse than the disease, so they’re paralyzed.”
Hanson is absolutely correct, as usual. If leaders in Europe had any common sense, they would listen.
