LIVE | After Vance, Elon Musk Warns of Europe’s Free Speech Collapse Amid Le Pen Crackdown

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In a fiery speech at the Lega Congress in Florence, Elon Musk branded restrictions on free speech and large government as “fundamentally fascist,” accusing the left of undermining freedom by suppressing ideas—a stance that echoes US Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent blistering critique of Europe’s internal decay. Speaking weeks earlier in Munich, Vance warned that Europe’s greatest threats lie within, not from external foes like Russia, slamming its leaders for stifling dissent. The rhetoric gained explosive traction this week as Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right firebrand, was sentenced to prison and banned from elections over campaign finance violations—moves her supporters decry as political censorship. Together, Musk and Vance’s transatlantic salvo paints Europe as a battleground where free expression and democracy are under siege, with Le Pen’s fate as the latest flashpoint.
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