Vice President Vance received a standing ovation during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday for remarks he delivered last week at

He proclaimed nothing less than geopolitical revolution—and a reckoning with the question of Western identity.

The day after Vance’s lecture, the president of the United States declared himself a national savior who doesn’t have to worry about little things like laws when he’s busy saving the country. Whatever inspired that tweet—which,