🛫 THEY FLED TO AN EU “PARADISE.” NOW THEY WANT TO COME HOME.

Europe was sold as a left-wing utopia: universal health care, easy living, a gentler life. Thousands of Americans bought it. Now WIRED reports that many are plotting their way back.

On health care, one American learned what “free” really means in Europe: “I pay huge amounts of taxes and an immigration surcharge to access the NHS services—so no, the health care is not free here.” This should be a warning signal to the “Medicare for All” and elimination of private health insurance model that the Democrat Party is pushing in the US. Democrat candidates are running on Medicare for All for midterm elections, but the recent report from WIRED proved that may be a mistake.

This is what the EU government system looks like up close. Brussels has stacked rule upon rule until even Merz and De Wever want an “emergency brake,” and the EU is now reworking its own Green Deal after piling energy and compliance costs on industry. Eurozone factory output fell 0.5% in August. Open borders and weak enforcement have strained public services and public patience, as France’s riots just showed.

Europe’s model of high taxes, heavy regulation, and government-run everything is not one to follow. America’s more open, faster-moving, pro-growth approach is why people want to come home, and the U.S. is better off for it.

2. 🔥 FRANCE BURNS, AMERICA ENFORCES

Student protests over school conditions started in September. By last weekend they had turned into organized looting and arson. Rioters vandalized roughly 1,500 shops and set fire to Limoges’ 143-year-old town hall, which survived two world wars. In Marseille, they toppled a bust of Marianne. Nearly 2,400 people were arrested, and about 1,000 police officers were injured.

Macron says, “Those who looted will have to pay.” That promise comes after the damage is done. Europe’s establishment spent years letting in migrants with no real plan to integrate them. It tolerated parallel communities and treated enforcement against criminal behavior as optional.

America has taken the opposite path. Under President Trump, southern border apprehensions fell 95% in fiscal year 2026, the lowest annual total in American history, with zero Border Patrol releases for the first time ever. Violent crime fell 9.3% in 2025, the largest one-year drop since the FBI began estimating crime in 1936. The murder rate hit its lowest level since the 1950s. Secure borders and real enforcement are working.

The bottom line: When a government controls who comes in and enforces its laws once they’re here, its people are safer. When it won’t, it loses its own streets. Paris is the warning for every capital in Europe.

Europe doesn’t need apologies. It needs the Trump model: secure borders and consequences for lawbreakers.

💻 EVEN LIBERALS SUPPORT TRUMP ON DMA PUSHBACK

The Digital Markets Act has become so plainly discriminatory against American companies that even liberal groups in the U.S. are joining ranks with President Trump to voice the same concerns his administration has stressed for years.

In a recent piece, the Chamber of Progress took issue with the EU’s Digital Omnibus. Despite being intending to “simplify Europe’s digital rulebook, reduce compliance costs and improve regulatory coherence,” the Commission’s Digital Omnibus is poised to do the exact opposite through numerous proposed amendments that would introduce additional obligations or discriminatory treatment targeting DMA-designated gatekeepers.

These include Amendment 200, which would allow public bodies to charge very large enterprises, including DMA gatekeepers, higher fees than other companies to reuse the same public sector data. Other proposed changes, such as Amendment 1168 and Amendment 1725, would create a separate GDPR regime for processors designated as gatekeepers and exclude gatekeepers from a consent exemption for audience measurement, respectively.

The Chamber of Progress’s alignment with President Trump on this issue serves as a testament to President Trump’s leadership and his well-reasoned response to Brussels’ DMA. It should also serve as a warning to the EU that its regulatory agenda has become so egregious that even bitter political rivals approaching one of the most important and divisive elections in recent memory are willing to table their differences to defend U.S. companies overseas.

With the Commission currently evaluating amendments to the EU’s Digital Omnibus, President Trump should capitalize on this shared opposition to pressure Brussels to reject each of these amendments and to use the Omnibus to achieve its original aim of “simplify[ing] Europe’s digital rulebook, reduc[ing compliance costs and improv[ing] regulatory coherence.”