Vice President J.D. Vance denounced European politicians for blighting democracy with brazen censorship in a February speech in Munich.

Vance warned: “If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.”

European politicians were outraged because their citizens are still free to say anything their governments approve.

Unfortunately, the censorship stampede accelerated after Vance’s address.

A slew of zombie-like politicians and zealots remain hellbent on destroying free speech in Europe and America.

Germany was the scene of some of the 20th century’s worst tyranny, but today’s German leaders claim only noble intentions for oppression.

Berlin’s best and brightest “improved” democracy by putting politicians on a legal pedestal far above the common herd.

After a conservative editor mocked a top German law-enforcement official by posting a meme showing her holding an “I hate freedom of opinion” sign, he was convicted and sentenced to seven months in jail for “abuse, slander or defamation against persons in political life.”

The editor is on probation while the sentence is suspended, but many other Germans have been locked up for similar offenses.

German police “routinely raided homes, confiscated electronic devices, interrogated suspects and prosecuted individuals for the exercise of freedom of speech, including online,” according to the US State Department human-rights report.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz personally filed almost 5,000 complaints against his online critics, sometimes resulting in police raids against people he targeted.

Britain’s Online Safety Act, passed in 2018, is now a battering ram to force social-media companies to endlessly muzzle their users.

Forbes reported British “police are making more

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