European governments and too many in the media believe that free speech should be the preserve of calmer elites. This belief underlines efforts to constrict Elon Musk‘s controversial speech.

True, while he’s one of the most dynamic entrepreneurs of our time, Musk gets some important things badly wrong. Musk presumes that the far-right activist Tommy Robinson is a martyr for fleeting British freedom. In reality, Robinson is a violent soccer hooligan with convictions for drug dealing and fraud. Similarly, Musk presumes that the German AfD political party is solely concerned with reducing immigration. But while that’s true of many AfD supporters, the party’s senior ranks are infested with Nazi sympathizers. They flirt with a legacy that wreaked havoc on the world and required righteous annihilation from the air, land, and sea.