The SK soldiers’ hearts were not in it. They were given orders, but nobody was actually going to do anything to stop the Parliament from getting in, and everyone knew it.

MAGA thugs are absolutely willing to use violence against Democrat lawmakers. They already have.

Given your post history, I already know what your reply will be, but post it anyway.

Perhaps some genuine criticism could be levied at the specifics of their immigration policy, but this is JD Vance, that’s not what he’s here for.

When he talks about “shared values” and “what you are fighting for” he’s talking about white Christian dominance in Europe and defending it with the sword. The far right has long seen Europe as a failure of progressive decadence and moral weakness and this speech was a blatant expression of that.

That is why the far right rejects European countries and cozies up to Russia, because the American conservative and the Russian nationalist have quite a lot of “shared values.”

suppressing free speech

Shutting out far-right racists and literal foreign agitators

mishandling migration

Racism

and ignoring populist concerns

More racism

Feels like the New Axis is starting to take tangible shape.

You can get surprisingly far by making people laugh.