Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at a security conference in Munich touched on the many ways Europe has become more authoritarian and elitist, from annulling elections in Romania, to throwing people in jail for online wrong-think, to outlawing silent prayer vigils in Scotland. Yet the New York Times treated the speech with utter contempt, ignoring Vance’s call for freedom while painting him as a quasi-Nazi supporter.
A Sunday print story by Berlin bureau chief Jim Tankersley, “Vance, Like Musk, Attacks German Norms on Nazis and Extremism,” set Vance up for a fall. Would an Ivy League liberal receive the same condescending coverage that Ivy League conservative Vance has?
The American vice president visited a concentration camp on Thursday afternoon. He laid a wreath at the foot of a statue, made the sign of the cross and paused before a memorial…
