Or maybe it was Elon Musk, who looks to Europe and sees censorious, dystopian hell. In fact, Maga writ-large has made the question of speech on this continent its cause du jour. A year on from Vance’s intemperate performance at the Munich Security Conference, and the American right’s obsession with European speech laws has only grown deeper. And meanwhile, Stephen Yaxley Lennon (who goes by the man-of-the-people sobriquet Tommy Robinson) was hosted at the US state department and hailed as a “free-speech warrior”. When Maga looks at Europe it sees it sees a continent pushing itself to the brink with permissive migration policy.

Source: The Irish Times March 05, 2026 07:43 UTC