No matter how distasteful we find Trump and Vance over Europe, they speak a blunt truth

It's tough being rightwing these days. You have to find something nice to say about Donald Trump. That is hard. He thinks Kyiv started the Ukraine war and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is a "dictator". But what about JD Vance? The US vice-president thinks that Europe's "threat from within", which is putting "free speech ... in retreat", is worse than any threat from Russia or China. These men are deranged. What more is there to say? The answer is quite a lot. John Stuart Mill warned that "he who knows only his own side of the case knows little of…