For generations, it was understood — even if unwritten — that American officials don’t air domestic political grievances while standing on foreign soil. That restraint used to be about projecting unity abroad, even amid fierce debates at home.
That norm appears to be fading.
Gavin Newsom drew criticism after using his appearance at the Munich Security Conference to sharply criticize the duly elected president of the United States. Instead of limiting his remarks to international security matters or, you know, fixing the myriad of problems he and his Democratic supermajority helped create in his own state of California, Newsom addressed domestic political disputes, taking aim specifically, of course, at President Trump.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took her progressive pitch to the Munich Security Conference, advocating for a global wealth tax while standing overseas. Supporters call it bold. Critics call it reckless — especially given what has happened in high-tax states like California, where Democrats are running their high-earning taxpayers out of state because they can never get enough of other people’s money (to give away to illegal aliens).
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Ocasio-Cortez, a close ally of Bernie Sanders and a leading voice of the Democratic Party’s left flank, has fueled ongoing speculation about higher office. But moments on the world stage bring a different level of scrutiny.
During one exchange on international policy, critics said her answer lacked depth and precision — the kind of test that separates domestic messaging from global leadership.
Jibberish, in other words. Kamala Harris word-salad style:
INTERVIEWER: Should the US actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
AOC: Um…
You know, I think that, uh…
This is such a, uh, you know, I think that this is a, um…
This is, of course, a very long standing policy of the United States, and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.
And for that question to even arise. …
She doesn’t have a single clue about such a complex and troubling subject, and that is patently obvious from her response. And she ‘heard’ about it on social media:
