The global establishment's mask slipped completely this week when British politicians erupted in fury after a Trump administration official dared to meet with UK free speech activist Tommy Robinson. Their unhinged reaction tells you everything you need to know about how terrified they are of anyone who challenges their narrative.
Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser at the State Department's Consular Affairs bureau, posted photographs from his meeting with Robinson on Wednesday, proudly calling the British activist a "free speech warrior." The images immediately sent shockwaves through Britain's political class, who responded with predictable hysteria.
"Frankly disgraceful," raged British politicians who apparently believe American officials should bow to their globalist sensibilities. One politician whined that "we need to engage this administration on the difference between that and incitement to violence and racial hatred."
Really? This is rich coming from a country that has weaponized its justice system against citizens who dare speak uncomfortable truths about immigration and Islamic extremism. Robinson himself has been repeatedly jailed simply for reporting on grooming gangs that the British establishment desperately wanted to keep quiet.
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What's truly "disgraceful" here isn't a State Department official meeting with a free speech advocate – it's how British authorities have systematically persecuted Robinson for years simply because his message threatens their multicultural fantasy. This is the same country that arrests people for posting memes and sends police to citizens' doors for "offensive" tweets.
The Trump administration's willingness to engage with Robinson represents exactly the kind of America First foreign policy that puts our values – including free speech – front and center on the global stage. While the Biden regime spent four years kowtowing to foreign sensibilities, President Trump's team is making it clear that we won't be lectured by countries that have abandoned their own citizens' fundamental rights.
British politicians can clutch their pearls all they want, but their outrage only proves Robinson's point about the authoritarian crackdown on dissent across the Western world. When simply meeting with someone drives the establishment into such hysteria, you know that person is telling inconvenient truths they desperately want silenced.
The question Americans should be asking: If our own government officials can't meet with free speech advocates abroad, how long before they start silencing them at home?