“I’m glad you guys liked it. Not everybody liked it, you guys liked it,” Vance told the CPAC crowd of the speech he gave last week in Munich. There, it had generated more groans than applause, but here, just a short mention of it caused the crowd of thousands to whistle and stand.

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 the Munich Security Conference.

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,

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday kicked off this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as CPAC, an event that calls itself the largest gathering of conservatives in the world.