There is only one way to reclaim Western civilization, Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday night: exhibiting the courage to speak the truth.

“We’re not going to rebuild prosperity and opportunity,” Vance said. “We’re not going to rebuild the kind of society where we teach children the important virtues and skills to thrive, as opposed to trying to tear our kids down, which is what I think our education system does all too often. We’re not going to rebuild a foreign policy that’s rooted in our shared interest, rather than in liberal values that were invented 20 or 30 years ago, but have become the innovating concept of the foreign policy of too many Western leaders and too many Western nations. We’re not going to solve any of these problems unless we have the courage to speak the truth, unless we have the courage to live the truth.”

President Donald Trump has this courage, Vance said.

“One of the things that makes me most proud of our administration, not that we’ve won every battle, or win every battle. Some of these battles are going to take 20, 30, 40, years for us to see, I think, through to ultimate victory,” Vance said. “But the president, I’m very proud to say, is not a person who is afraid of criticism from those in power.”

“And I think there’s anything that sort of ties the first Trump administration to the second Trump administration and the........

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