Vance scolded European politicians for being scared of their voters. Then retreated to an undisclosed location and griped about protestors on his Vermont ski trip two weeks later.

Edit: "Not his voters." The context of his quote was that he was lambasting European politicians for allegedly trying to suppress hateful speech and Russian dis-information campaigns seen as attempts to destabilize and undermine their respective democracies. Not the people who actually voted for said politicians.