That’s what greeted US Vice President Vance’s remarks during his 19 minute speech to a bunch of Euroworthies at the Munich Security Conference, although he did get a short round of polite applause at the start and end. The reason for this reaction was that he basically told them that they haven’t been doing a very good job on democracy, free speech or immigration:

I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don’t go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany too.
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The organisers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing populist parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations. Now, again, we don’t have to agree with everything or anything that people say. But when political leaders represent an important constituency, it is incumbent upon us to at least participate in dialogue with them.

It made no difference when he said this about his own nation:

I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation.

The reason it made no difference was that his audience fully supported those actions and were doing the same, and worse, in Europe. Vance is not really criticising the EU or European nations or their peoples, he’s criticising these Brahmin elites, and doing it to their faces.

As a result he probably should have just skipped the following joke, even though it’s making a very good point, because there were never going to be even any quiet chuckles.

Speaking up and expressing opinions isn’t election interference. Even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential – and trust me, I say this with all humour – if American democracy can survive ten years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.

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