“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.