Is that something that's out there? Or was that just something that just flowed out of our discussion?

I’m not him (something I give thanks for every day) but yes, that’s pretty common currency in right wing channels. They believe that Europe is a hotbed of Socialism, that those high taxes are all flowing to the layabouts who refuse to do any real and manly work (lattes at the sidewalk cafe for anyone?) and if they would only live up to their worldly responsibilities (aka: more military, less coffee klatch) things would be a lot better all around.

I watch the occasional arch-conservative show (Wall Street Journal Editors on PBS, for example, sometimes Fox Business, etc) and it’s a common theme how misguided those daffy Europeans are. Danish going about in their EV’s? How can that work? Those French unions! The Greeks laying around in the fields near the Mediterranean!

I’m sure this is just a lever they’re trying to pull, like “all the media is liberal” and “the welfare queen” and “urban hell holes”, trying to game the refs by any means to achieve their he-man, Dodge RAM Truck ethos, pretending that “woke” is going to destroy the country, even as they cheer on a President who has invoked more power and broken more laws in his first 30 days than any other in history.