Europe’s ruling political and economic elites have long maintained that mass migration, legal or not, is at worst, inevitable, and at best, positive. But the fact remains that mass migration is unpopular with Germans and other citizens throughout the European Union.
At the Munich Security Conference last week, Vice President JD Vance told European leaders that censoring and ignoring their own voters’ strong feelings about mass migration was a mistake. This struck a nerve in Germany, which is so afraid of resurgent nationalism that it has outlawed some political parties and banned certain speech that defies the pro-migration narrative.
German voters’ concerns include fears for their physical safety as more young men from violent countries continue to enter, invited or not. As Ken Weinstein of the Hudson Institute writes, “Massive migration from Islamic countries…
