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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s two things that ring true about Europeans and their relationship to us Americans.
No. 1, they never feel or they never admit that they’re emulated. They admit they’re affected by the ill effects they think of America, but they’re not influenced by us.
And No. 2, they’re the stalwarts of democracy. We have these pathologies of swinging hard to the right, or we’re yokels, or we’re anti-democratic, or we’re MAGA fanatics. But the Europeans are pristine Democrats, we’re told. And they’re independent of America.
But something’s happened that belies those two allegations or assumptions.
No. 1,…
