Did you know that the Nazis were free speech warriors, just like JD Vance and Elon Musk?

I didn't, but CBS' Margaret Brennan set me and Marco Rubio straight on this as she criticized JD Vance's speech in Munich. 

Imagine having to defend free speech to an American journalist? What has happened to American media?@margbrennan @nytimes @jimtankersley @maggieNYT @AGSNYT @SecRubio @marcorubio @BillAckman

— Andrea E (@AAC0519) February 16, 2025

I always associated Nazis with banning political parties, burning books, killing people for being of the wrong ethnicity, and persecution of any dissent. Little did I know that they were the free speech guys. 

It's not even the case that the Nazis rose to power because speech was too free. The party was banned in Weimar Germany for a time, and when they rose to power, they, in turn, banned any other political party, just as the current German government is contemplating banning AfD. 

Free speech, in fact, plays NO ROLE in the rise of the Nazis or in the Nazi ideology itself. Everybody was trying to censor everybody else. Which, come to think about it, is the model of society that people like Margaret Brennan and the transnational elite think is peachy. 

Margaret Brennan burning history like https://t.co/MiOIxOiklr pic.twitter.com/owKXJRaVxr

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) February 16, 2025

The modern technocrat is deeply afraid of people thinking for themselves, lest any of us wake up to the fact that they are mediocrities whose only claim to power is their ability to mouth platitudes that midwits find profound. They use buzzwords like "my democracy," "diversity is our strength," and "misinformation" to cast a spell on enough people that they have retained power for decades. 

This is a crazy exchange.

Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech? https://t.co/EBUKx75Wfm

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 16, 2025

Unfortunately for them, they are incapable of making any sense when pressed to go beyond the buzzwords. Margaret Brennan may actually believe that the Nazis and free speech are somehow intertwined, but that merely shows that a degree from the University of Virginia doesn't mean much anymore. 

Would "hate speech" laws have stopped the Nazis?

No. Absolutely not.

In fact, hate speech laws existed in post-WWI Germany. They not only helped the Nazis gain power, they helped the Nazis censor anyone who challenged them.

FIRE Senior Fellow—and the daughter of a… https://t.co/ItCmjxImRc pic.twitter.com/bq1RXlRdZr

— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) February 16, 2025

Hate speech was of course banned in Germany as the Nazis rose to power. The party itself was banned for a period of time, and the ban was lifted because the ruling elites became so reviled for allowing their country to fall so far so fast. The Nazis rose because Germans became desperate as they watched their country fall apart; the best way to prevent the rise of Nazi-like movements is to govern competently, not restrict freedom. 

Those who don’t know history are doomed to compare everything to Hitler.

— Lou Perez (@TheLouPerez) February 16, 2025

Brennan, no doubt, is not stupid, even though she appears to be here. She is something much worse: so lobotomized by the Narrative™ and the need to promote it that she can say "Nazi" and "free speech" in the same sentence. There may be a brain inside that head somewhere, but all evidence that there is (or once was) has been washed away by the need to mouth The Narrative™ as if she were a parrot. 

🚨🇺🇸MEDIA REVISIONISM HITS INSANE LEVELS: NAZIS LOVED FREE SPEECH?!

Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan suggested the Holocaust happened because Nazis allowed too much free speech.@elonmusk reality check:

“One of the first things Hitler did upon gaining power was apply… https://t.co/IggSqIc8Jj pic.twitter.com/W5iSAF69qp

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 16, 2025

Of course, the failure to know anything about history is not the most shameful part of this exchange, but the desperation the transnational elite has to control speech is. As I will write later today, elites on both sides of the Atlantic were scandalized by JD Vance standing up for free speech and by his willingness to chastise our "allies" for their drift away from Western values of freedom. 

1000%. If you're going to give Democrat propaganda outlet CBS and low-intelligence Democrat activist Margaret Brennan the huge gift of your legitimacy and time, you have to be prepared to utterly humiliate them at least three times each time you're on. I'm serious. https://t.co/ovy33X45Gh

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 16, 2025

Our own foreign policy elites are horrified that Vance insulted the Europeans. These same Europeans, of course, have been censoring Americans' speech, tried to prevent Donald Trump from being heard on X, and called Trump a White Supremacist and proto-Nazi. 

.@NapolitanNews research on the Elite One Percent found that most elites see free speech as a problem.
By a 57% to 39% margin, they think the risk of disinformation is worse than letting the government decide what counts as misinformation is more
dangerous than the…

— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) February 16, 2025

In their minds, there is no contradiction; they firmly believe that the only true freedom is the freedom to repeat what the transnational elites say, and calling Trump and his supporters Nazis is perfectly diplomatic because, well, they say so. 

Margaret Brennan: “The Nazis weaponized free speech to conduct a genocide.”

Everyone who passed the 6th grade: pic.twitter.com/pb9aSVQAKL

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) February 16, 2025

The greatest irony, to me, is that it is our "educated" class who will nod their heads to Brennan's inanity, while less-educated but less propagandized people can smell the pile of bulls**t from a mile away. No doubt millions of leftists will repeat Brennan's line on their coffee breaks, crack open their copies of The Atlantic, and worry that they can't burn more books or ban more political parties to save democracy.