With the blowup in the White House between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a lot of people got their knickers in a twist. In particular, a lot of European leaders got bent out of shape.
And they made those opinions known.
And at least one European journalist has thoughts on who that new leader is, too.
I find the idea laughable, and not just because no European nation has either the military might or GDP to take any such leadership role. Those are certainly true, of course, but it boils down to just one thing.
None of them can be the leader of the free world because no European leader presides over a free nation.
Oh, I've had plenty of Europeans try to tell me how they're free, how they have every right that I have, but they're either lying or deluding themselves. I tend to think it's the latter, but I wouldn't put money on it.
First, they have long given up their right to keep and bear arms. In fact, most of them never believed any such right exists. Never mind that they've seen the rise of tyrants time and time again. They somehow think that this time, the government will respect them and be nice.
That worked out so well that now, people are imprisoned for memes.
We all saw something about the "60 Minutes" segment regarding German authorities literally raiding someone's home over memes. They actually think people can and should be imprisoned over insults.
The UK is no better, either. We literally had a British police commissioner threaten to arrest Americans over things that were said on the internet. You have to recognize that he wouldn't do that if he couldn't arrest people domestically, and they do.
Even praying in your own home could be problematic if you live too close to something like an abortion clinic. Sure, some of the problems might be overstated, but just praying at your living room window – even if it has nothing to do with politics – could be deemed "performative" and lead to arrest.
And these measures are all over Europe. This is how Europe rolls these days, which I guess is fine if that's what you're into.
But they're not free nations.
As such, there's no way any of their rulers could become the leader of the free world.
While the United States isn't as free as it should be in some ways, we're a damn sight better than pretty much anywhere else in the world.
That's why it's so important for each of us to fight every infringement with every fiber of our being. There are plenty of places for the leftists to go if they want their Utopian society. Europe is full of them. They can pack up and go through the immigration process and get precisely what they want.
For us, there's nowhere else to go.
We are the free world.