James Price has a useful Critic piece on US Vice-President JD Vance passing on a few facts of life to European elites. For those who missed it, his speech in Munich is here. The Critic piece is well worth reading too.
Vance’s truth bombs
He broke the sacred omerta that mass migration has been a security and cultural disaster
It has been a few days, but still the reverberations are being felt from US Vice-President JD Vance’s whistlestop tour of Europe this week. I’d have thought that the biggest shock was the joy all should have experienced at there being a US leader who could communicate in coherent sentences for the first time in a decade (let alone give policy-rich, philosophically and intellectually informed speeches with sound themes as I will contend Vance did).
But others apparently didn’t like having obvious truths spoken at them in settings that are supposed to be cosy, insular affairs where attendees can hide from reality. It was, after all, only a month ago that the Munich Security Conference’s former Chairman, Wolfgang Ischinger, suggested at Davos that Chinese troops be invited into Europe to provide security guarantees in Ukraine, because Germany couldn’t possibly be expected to stoop to do so.
Vance, however, was in no mood to join the fairies with which the Europeans are away. He delivered what the young call “truth bombs”. Their payload was not aimed at Europe, as facile analysts such as the BBC and, alas people like Rory Stewart (of whom I always expect better. He always lets me down). No, these truth bombs were aimed to shake the continent’s elites out of their suicidal reverie.
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Had you seen that Rory Stewart let slip that his wife was one of the people living off USAid funds for spreading Woke poppycock to the women of Afghanistan? They are all at it. Arfur Daley had nothing on these people.
The gravy train doesn't stop at Truth Station anymore. It rattles through, with the blinds down, not even slowing down.
I just hope that Trump, Vance and (even) Musk keep repeating the message. The Three Horsemen of the Anti-Apocalypse perhaps?
dearieme - I didn't know but it's no surprise. With a bit of luck, Rory Stewart's reputation among those who pay attention to him will have taken a knock.
DJ - with luck there will be increasing demands to raise the blinds all across Europe.
That Vance speech was stunning. One of the best things this year. We need a few more like it on the right occasions. When ordinary people realise that many others have the same ideas and the same concerns, they realise there is hope in voting for what they actually want. In the past, the self-perpetuating narrative led most voters to think they were isolated and wrong, but now the old "certainties" are fracturing.
Sam - I agree, a stunning speech yet he added nothing to what those outside those old "certainties" have been saying for decades. Yes the "certainties" are fracturing and the internet must have something to do with it.
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