That's a good point. Europe is an object lesson for America but what is going to save us is our 1st Amendment. They can shut you up by law. Men with guns will put you in a cement cage with steel bars if you speak truth they don't like.

That is most Germany and England. Although the First Amendment certainly is a very good thing in that it prevents governments from doing that, it is rather rare. This is not to justify it, but just to say that the biggest threat to free speech is not government putting you in jail, but witch-hunts and private corporations.

The reailty is this. Europeans never got over their love affair with kings. That feels right to them. Mummy makes bad men fly over there all the time (GoT reference) .

I don't accept your reasoning, but your conclusion is correct. People don't think that free speech protections should be extended to something "that is bad".

That's why it's no longer enough that America protect her values here. We have to take our Constitution into Europe and set her people free. If we don't do that, we outselveds won't survive.

I am not at all certain that this will occur to set anyone free, and more to spread wokeness.

The lesson we learned from the last 100 years of culture warfare is this: what starts in Germany, what starts in France isn't going to stay in Germany of France or China.

The past 30 years is more like: what starts in America, does not stay there. The wokeness cancer is already spreading to the most easily influenced parts of the European population, which is why the French government is working hard to resist it.