Following are excerpts from a recent article by Heather Cox Richardson, my favorite American historian, focusing on JD Vance's statements at the recent Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for talking about international security policy:
" - - - Vice President J.D. Vance launched what The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour called 'a brutal ideological assault' against Europe, attacking the values the United States used to share with Europe but which Vance and the other members of the Trump administration are now working to destroy.
"Vance and MAGA Christian nationalists reject the principles of secular democracy and instead align with leaders like Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán.
They claim that the equal rights central to democracy undermine nations by treating women and racial, religious, and gender minorities as equal to white Christian men. They want to see an end to the immigration that they believe weakens a nation's people, and for government to reinforce traditional religious and patriarchal values."
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