The New York Times is appalled that Samuel Samson is upending decades of pandering to Europeans and their pet theories; I’m pretty sure that means nothing but good.
The NYT hates him; he’s gotta be good!
The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe https://t.co/yS3hMgcZXH
— David Strom (@DavidStrom) April 17, 2026
You can easily understand why the Times and the European elites hate him. He is only 27, a J.D. Vance guy through and through, mixed-race—Filipino and white—and totally contemptuous of the Atlanticist consensus that has led America into becoming an ideological vassal and military enforcer for the transnational elite.
The NYT reports British officials were “left stunned” by the State Dept when they raised concerns about free-speech and migrant crime.
British diplomats’ “jaws dropped” when confronted on these issues. pic.twitter.com/jA6wX0QL6D
— Steven Edginton (@StevenEdginton) April 17, 2026
Think about it: he is a traitor to his race, an unabashed patriot, too young, not an Ivy-Leaguer, and associated with the execrable J.D. Vance. What’s not to hate?
He even meets with the AfD, lectures Europeans about their migration policies, and their hostility to free speech.
The lede tells you everything you need to know about the Times’ framing:
When Samuel Samson, a senior adviser at the State Department, sat down privately with far-right German lawmakers in an office just steps from the White House, he was breaking with history.
For eight decades after World War II, America’s foreign policy establishment had usually steered clear of Germany’s hard-right parties, seeking to ensure that they never seized power again. That changed under President Trump, leading last September to Mr. Samson’s meeting with Beatrix von Storch and Joachim Paul of Alternative for Germany, or AfD — a party designated as a suspected extremist organization by German intelligence.
As the meeting evolved into a general gripe session, the AfD politicians told Mr. Samson, then 26, and several other American diplomats that they feared the German government might ban their party, according to Mr. Paul and another person familiar with the conversation. The Americans railed against European regulation of social media, calling it a tool for stamping out conservative opinions. And the group discussed a bogus far-right conspiracy theory that mainstream European leaders were seeking to replace white populations with nonwhite immigrants.
See what I mean? The Times just assumes that when the German government, which does dawn raids to take computers away from people for expressing wrongthink, is the good guy when it calls somebody “far right.” The AfD is evil because the elite says so, not because they are. They are authoritarians, so they should be suppressed by the government and have their speech rights taken away!
Freedom is slavery. Big Brother will save you from wrongthink, or else.
He has shocked its mainstream leaders, many of them with decades of experience in diplomacy, by accusing them of stifling freedom and by frequently meeting with and promoting their hard-line challengers. He is just five years out of college, and he has repeatedly advocated an approach that overturns three generations of American diplomatic orthodoxy.
Every single word of that paragraph boils down to: sit down, shut up, and let the “adults” in the room run things. You know, the people who have created the mess Europe is in right now. Reliant on Russia and Tehran for their energy needs, deindustrializing, without any military to speak of, increasingly diplomatically isolated, cozying up to China, and with rape gangs roaming the streets.
Those adults.
The Times simply can’t be honest about digital censorship in Europe. They even imply that the Trump administration is trying to spread child porn. The truth is, Europeans won’t even put people in jail for child porn anymore; their speech police are all about politics and immigration.
For Mr. Samson and much of the administration, the Europe of 2026 has become a place where woke, gender-based politics is at its peak, the nanny state is empowered, and patriotism and national pride go to die. In this view, the European bureaucracy has sacrificed free speech by regulating American tech companies, an effort that includes trying to stamp out child sexual abuse imagery on social media outlets and limiting children’s access to them.
“Europe has devolved into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom, and numerous other assaults on democratic self-governance,” Mr. Samson wrote in an essay posted to the State Department’s official Substack account.
The Times piece is about what you would expect: pure propaganda about how wonderful the Europeans are, how their growing totalitarianism is really about protecting people from bad things. Trump wants to spread misinformation; Europeans are all about The Truth.
The Times, which used to care, they told us, about free speech, writes glowingly of European censorship, and just can’t stand the thought of a patriotic American race-traitor conservative lecturing the Davos crowd about how the US won’t tolerate the Europeans shutting Americans up, and how we think they shouldn’t be the Stasi with their own populace.
It’s just not done. John Kerry wouldn’t have done it! Victoria Nuland wouldn’t!
Yeah, well, good.
Every bit of this profile simply drips with contempt, not the least of which was for Sampson’s Christian faith. That’s so retrograde. Islam is the next big thing, don’t ya know?
In a memo sent to embassies, the department said its aim for 2026 to 2030 was to “rebuild the civilizational alliance” with European states that had been “infected with the dogma of the post-Cold War neoliberal moment.”
The memo, seen by The Times, was a significant departure from previous internal directives. It instructed diplomats to “condemn anti-democratic actions which restrict free speech or the free exercise of religion” and to treat mass migration as “a threat to national cohesion, social stability, and civilizational values” across Europe.
The memo’s subtext appeared clear — and alarming — for mainstream leaders in Europe. In country after country, the United States was drastically shifting its approach. Groups fighting for gender equality, women’s rights, gay rights and electoral reform were out. Organizations dedicated to religious freedom, right-wing speech and fighting abortion rights were in.
The United States, under Mr. Trump, was preparing to loosen its support of the continent unless its politics shifted rightward.
Of course, the Euroweenies found it alarming. It makes too much sense.
The Times spent FOUR reporters’ time and resources to write this. Because of course they did. There is nothing more elite than groupthink, to which this piece is a love letter.
What’s not to love about this guy?
Now I can’t speak to whether Sampson has the managerial chops to do this job, but he sure has the right ideas. And since it is his ideas that so shock our Euro “allies” and the establishmentarians at the Times, I’m inclined to think he is the right man for the job.
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