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Echoes of Orwell: Victor Davis Hanson on the Battle for Free Speech in Europe and America
"We're losing Europe. And that JD Vance's speech wasn't just directed at the ministers nor even the MAGA crowd at home. It was really to the silent majority in Europe. And he what he was saying was this elite has failed. And anytime you fail, you that's when you start to censor. They failed on the border, on the economy, on energy, on immigration, on defense."
"And so in their failure, they tried to to stifle all forms of dissent and free expression. And he was trying to give encouragement to all the people of Europe who know that and wanna rise up, and that's why they hate him so much. You know, miss Brennan didn't understand that when the Nazis came to power and they started to outlaw free speech, one of the mechanisms they used was to say it was the German equivalent of disinformation or hate speech or misinformation."
"That's how it always happens. Usually, censorship is the twin of failure. When you're failing, you cannot stand the light of, you know, criticism. And it's it's so remarkable to me that so many members of the media don't understand the the the basics of what you just said right there."
"They don't realize again that Joe Biden did more to harm free speech than almost anybody. And he did it because he had a failed agenda and people were speaking out against it. And that's why the FBI began to partner with Facebook."
"That's why why 51 intelligence authorities started to lie on national TV to suppress dissent about the, authenticity of the laptop. That was the whole point about the Russian collusion hoax. They wanted to suppress free speech because their agenda was failing, and that's what's happening in Europe."
"And they know that there's a populist nationalist blowback coming. And JD Vance wants to assure people that we are the friend of the real Europe, not the pseudo Europe, not the pseudo elite that's hijacked the the continent the last twenty years."
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