Police stormed the National Conservatism conference in Brussels Tuesday and barricaded the doors on the orders of a leftist mayor. The clampdown was demanded and celebrated by Antifa and other extremists who sought to make clear to the world leaders, lawmakers, and intellectuals inside that they were not welcome to openly discuss the conservation of their respective nation-states.
The shutdown backfired greatly, not only confirming attendees’ suspicions that leftists are animated by totalitarian energies and that post-national liberals will become increasingly authoritarian as their influence wanes, but causing a significant international stir.
In the face of immense backlash over the socialist clampdown on free speech, Belgium’s supreme administrative court and the Belgian prime minister intervened in the conservatives’ favor.
Prime Minister Alexander
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