There will be no reckoning in U.S. media for having once again greatly underestimated President Trump’s chances of electoral victory. And there will be no widespread effort by legacy media to understand better the electorate that moved to the right in November.

CBS News’s programming last weekend already suggested as much.

In an address in Munich on Jan. 14, Vice President JD Vance told European leaders that they’ve grown dangerously illiberal, citing as an example Scotland’s “buffer zone” law barring pro-life activists from demonstrating or praying within 600-plus feet of abortion clinics.

“[L]ast October,” he said, “the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called ‘safe access zones,’ warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.”

“In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,” he said.

Love him or hate him, the man has a point, although many American journalists will tell you otherwise. The way they see it, the vice president is guilty of spreading “disinformation” regarding the Scottish law. Also, for some reason, these beneficiaries of our First Amendment believe that free speech should not be as free as Vance suggests.

This is our Fourth Estate, ladies and gentlemen.

First of all, the Scottish government........

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