Shocked that you didn't catch the correlation between "The answer is politics, and political cowardice." by Boris and JD Vance's statement that European leaders fear their voters. There's no difference. Once they quit fearing the voters, the voters have lost.
Here in the US they spent the last few years crying out about democrat terminology of "shared values, democratic values", and reminding people we are a republic not a democracy, but Vance gets up there using the same words, and somehow, it suddenly becomes fine to use words they've attacked the left over for years now. Maybe it's the evil aura appearance of Vance, he reeks of it, even enhances it with his metro-sexual appearance grooming complete with eye liner. Believe me when I say, being married to this man, a woman would have to come from a culture of obedience and servitude to men, there's no other way to survive a man like that.
You have to stand up there and address it as a grand beat down of the direction of which they are going, they've done the same thing here for the last four years quite strikingly. Here, their tactics have paid off, but it doesn't appear to be such among the populace of Europe because they made one huge mistake on election day, they let those same elites that a vast majority have come to hate, stand behind Trump. You have to remember that Europe's been in this for awhile now, once bitten twice shy is all it takes for them now to realize the game being played on them, and they know, same as Alex Jones has expressed to Americans after the election, the globalist have already beaten your ass.
Things will never change course no matter what the voters do, here or there, because the game is rigged. It's all tough talk followed by the sensitive touch of caring for the masses. When you are going to change humanity as you know it, you have to take it down slow and easy in a win some lose some game. Each side has to feel they are once again going to turn the tide back the same way, but it's never meant to go back to the way things once were, regardless of the agenda's being use to persuade people of such.
People who have been raised to expect something from their hard work, will always come to expect that. People who have come to expect much of nothing from their hard work, will continue to work hard for nothing. The latter will always be more appreciative of having being better off than where they came from, and this will be why immigration from other cultures will never be dealt with. The vast majority also come from cultures where they have learned early on it's not wise to rise up against the machine.
The evil just oozes off Vance, and it is probably why he struck such an accord with Peter Thiel, the two of them are like two peas in a pod, throw in Vivek the LNP failed patent holder, and you have a recipe for disaster, of which the pandemic was. It's beyond me that people fail to add up the math here. Thiel + DARPA + Vance + Vivek + Trump. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out.