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The 2028 Democrat Contenders’ Pilgrimage to Europe

Somehow, it became necessary that politicians seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination had to wander abroad to various international conferences to pay obeisance to European elites and spout bile at their domestic political enemies.

Those various climate summits at whatever posh digs the Euros could situate have attracted Democrat politicians for years. You don’t hear much about them anymore, now that the global warming doom-and-gloom prognostications have all fallen apart. At some point, taking to the stage and echoing Thunbergian stupidities like “the planet will burn up and be uninhabitable in 12 years” if whatever hard-core socialist command-economic policy fetishes aren’t engaged in tends to go out of style after 12 years, and then some go by with none of the forecasted doom coming true. So you don’t generally get the Democrats’ big guns at those events anymore; or if you do, nobody really pays attention. (RELATED: Europe Is Thus Illuminated, Exactly As It Is)

Davos is a little different, though, for some strange reason. The annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos has for years been a showplace for Dems seeking international boulevard cred, and it’s anything but surprising that all the stupid and terrible ideas bandied about among the weffers have become standard Democrat cant. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 321: Dumbos at Davos: The WEF’s Dwindling Influence)

But Davos isn’t the only place you’ll find the Gavin Newsoms, AOCs, Mark Kellys, Gretchen Whitmers, and others now. Over the weekend, we saw them descending on the Munich Security Conference seeking to bolster their global status. (RELATED: Is Gretchen Whitmer Back In?)

It’s not a new thing that politicians would make everything about themselves. That’s what politicians do. But it does rankle a bit to think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes she belongs at Munich or that she has anything of value to offer as a speaker at that conference.

It isn’t like this was a surprise…

BREAKING – AOC is being ruthlessly mocked after claiming action can’t be taken against Venezuela because it’s “below the equator.”

Leader of the democrat party everyone. pic.twitter.com/G2BFBoZwPe

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 16, 2026

And that wasn’t the worst of it…

The sad thing about this is it won’t be her downfall. It should be, but it won’t.

At RedState, Brad Slager noted the effort put in by Bloomberg (only one of a large number of news organizations doing this) to rehabilitate AOC when it’s obvious she’s out of her depth when it comes to foreign policy…

At my Townhall media column, I have one category I use called Democratic Custodial Services, where the press slides in and offers cleanup when a Democrat politician fouls something up. AOC’s German fiasco was broad enough that Bloomberg acted like a team from Servpro arriving after an F-5 twister.

As an introduction, they did not help their own cause by admitting that AOC was basically out of her depth from the start. The reporting duo of Nick Wadhams and María Paula Mijares Torres admit that AOC, “is better known for her strong progressive stances than her foreign policy views.” They go on to further undercut the New York representative by adding that she lacks serious international heft since she is not serving on either the Foreign Affairs or Armed Services Committees.

All told, Alex From The Bronx has only shown interest in Latin American affairs (naturally, for the Puerto Rican descendant) and Palestine (like everyone else in her party, save for John Fetterman). To get a taste of what the AOC Doctrine may look like, it would amount to “We suck and want to be like you!”

Her ineptitude did not dissuade Wadhams and Mijares from their appointed duties. The pair tells us that AOC’s performance was NOT a crater-inducing affair, but instead it was a display of rationality and lucid leadership. I kid you not.

First, they deliver this oblivious nugget from Alex:

She demanded a foreign policy approach that counters record inequality and looks to undo a world “dominated by a handful of elites, a handful of oligarchs that sit in pretend democracies and make backdoor deals with one another.”

She says this at a conference peopled by world leaders and political elites, and then we hear she sat in with those various leaders and political elites. It may be a tie between AOC and these reporters as to who is more ignorant.

They do get around to affirming AOC’s vapor-lock moment when trying to respond to questions from Bloomberg’s own Francine Lacqua: “This is such a, a, you know, I think that, this is a, um, this is of course, a, ah, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States.” Just…damn. After that dive off the train trestle she may have a better claim than Joe Biden to a stuttering speech impediment.

But then the cleanup effort begins. These reporters insist that, eventually, she gave a cogent response. This entailed her giving a decaffeinated proposal that we should avoid conflict, a level of discourse on par with a beauty pageant ditz, suggesting we should strive for world peace. Of course, the next move was to allow a spokesperson to be granted airtime to wave away the fog of her commentary.

Ocasio-Cortez hesitated “because she wanted to be careful about what she was saying,” Matt Duss, who advises Ocasio-Cortez on foreign policy, said in an interview. “I wish more politicians would wait to answer instead of rattling off talking points.”

It’s irritating, no doubt. This is one example of why it’s a good thing mainstream media’s hold on culture and politics is at its lowest ebb; sanitizing AOC’s nonstop disqualifications is very poor hygiene indeed.

But there’s no sanitizing this. Hillary Clinton’s time has undoubtedly come and gone, but that didn’t stop her from going to Munich and acting like she boasted any relevance on the world stage. Except her appearance on a panel discussion went about as badly as it possibly could…

???? BREAKING: This Czech politician is being praised worldwide for OBLITERATING Hillary Clinton and causing her to erupt in panic on-stage

“You really don’t like Trump!”

“I’m sorry this makes you nervous!”

Hillary: ????????

LMFAO, this dude’s a LEGEND! ????pic.twitter.com/pM1KX6XhMh

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 15, 2026

Yes, there is a reason Donald Trump beat her in the 2016 election, and this is it.

But Hillary still stands as a “political leader” with more gravitas than the brightest current stars in her party. Besides the aforementioned AOC, there was this ridiculous fop…

I could take apart the points mouthed by that enormous Brylcream-adorned head, but I doubt it’s necessary to do so in front of this readership. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Self-Puffery’ Gets Him in Trouble With David Axelrod)

What I would simply ask California’s governor is, if it’s just the “special interests” (and how come the solar and wind people aren’t “special interests” but oil companies are?) who are interfering with the transition of the auto industry away from “gas-guzzlers,” the car companies are adjusting production back to internal combustion engines and justifying the decisions based on operating losses from EVs and the recognition of where consumer demand is? (RELATED: Blue States Are Moving Legislation Forward to Restrict How Much You Can Drive)

Donald Trump is banning Chinese EVs, sure, but his hostility to electric cars mostly manifests itself in simply no longer subsidizing them. If the market truly demanded that EVs replace gasoline-powered cars and trucks, Trump wouldn’t have the power to drag us back to those bad old days, Newsom decries; people would buy the EVs, and the car companies would be there to sell them. (RELATED: EVs Are a Failed Experiment)

Oh, but there was gravitas to be had from the Democrats at Munich, wasn’t there? Well, here is their token veteran, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, whose pre-launch of his presidential bid for 2028 consisted of a seditious assertion that orders given to the military by the Trump administration were illegal, without outlining what those orders were. Having thus created a constitutional crisis of sorts, Kelly is now attempting to play the victim for the Defense Department, having sanctioned him, and the DOJ is pursuing an indictment against him.

And he had to drag this in front of the world for some reason, running his mouth from Munich in a Bloomberg interview…

Kelly opened that interview with a lie because the administration specifically stated they weren’t going to initiate military action to seize Greenland, and the Greenland issue has been resolved for now.

Trashing the American president in front of the rest of the world like this is something we used to think was abhorrent. It used to be said that politics stops at the water’s edge.

But these people don’t believe that at all. Their views on politics mirror their views on immigration, which is to say they don’t recognize any borders.

And they aren’t very serious about the world or America’s place in it.

Contrast the above with this, a speech by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a possible Republican opponent for one of these Democrats (though it’s true that Rubio has said he wouldn’t run against JD Vance for the GOP nomination if Vance seeks it). Rubio is operating on a far higher plane of ideas than the squabbling figures on the other side; hopefully, the public will note that and act accordingly.