JD Vances glorious roast of Europes leaders was a plea to the West great again

So it turns out that MEGA — “Make Europe Great Again” — is not just a slogan.It’s not just a wistful line on caps worn by people on my side of the pond who wish we had a Trump-like figure to stir up Euro-politics.No, it’s really happening.And its gun-totin’ chief is JD Vance.Witness his glorious roasting of Europe’s leaders at the Munich Security Conference.It was a delicious spectacle — a self-made millennial Yank torching the grey-faced technocrats of my sad, knackered continent.He didn’t hold back.

He eviscerated the assembled dignitaries for their failings on free speech, democracy and security.He lamented “the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values” — words that will have resonated with millions of Europeans.I’m one of them.It was on the freedom to speak that he made his most stinging comments.“Across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,” he told his startled audience.He rattled off recent acts of outrageous censorship that would have made Stalin beam with pride.He mentioned police raids in Germany on citizens “suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online.” Criticizing feminism is a blasphemy in woke Germany.He reminded us that just two weeks ago, a Christian activist in Sweden was convicted for burning copies of the Koran — despite the fact that his friend had just been murdered for doing the same.Vance looked righteously aghast that Sweden would do something as cruel as convict a man of the “speechcrime” his buddy had just been slain for.He rebuked my homeland, Britain, for its tragic “backslide away from conscience rights.”The “basic liberties of religious Britons” are being throttled, he said.He gave the example of Christians being arrested for “silently praying” near abortion clinics.This really is happening.

This once great nation that gave the world such game-changing freedom warriors as John Milton and John Stuart Mill now erects “buffer zones” around abortion c...