Former First Lady Hillary Clinton has clashed with a Czech politician during the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
Clinton slammed US President Donald Trump and his administration over his dealings with Europe and his approach to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka was quick to call out the failed presidential candidate’s remarks and defend the Trump administration.
Following Clinton’s verbal assault on Trump, Macinka pointed out, “I think you really don’t like him.”
The former Secretary of State responded, again ranting about President Trump and his actions, “to the United States and the world”.
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This discussion examines the ideological divide in American politics, focusing on the contrast between Donald Trump's leadership style and the progressive agenda of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). It critiques the \"hard left\" for perceived hypocrisy regarding foreign policy and warns that the Democratic Party's shift toward liberal extremes is alienating a growing majority of the general electorate.
He has betrayed the West. He's betrayed human values. He's betrayed the NATO
Charter, the Atlantic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a
lot of what has been done before to try to make sense of how difficult it is to
restrain people who want unaccountable power. And none of us in this room,
including all of us on this panel, would choose to live under a regime that was
so unaccountable that it could act with impunity the way that Putin does, except
that's who Trump is modeling himself as.
Well, first I think you really don't like him. You know, that is absolutely true, but
I really, not only do I not like him, I don't like him because of what he's
doing to the United States and the world, and I think you should take a hard
look at it if you think that there is something good that will come out of it.
What I think Trump is doing in America, I think it is
reaction, reaction, reaction for something that, for some policies that
really went too far, too far from the regular people, too far from reality. So
you know, we saw the cancel culture, we saw the woke revolution,
I don't agree with the gender revolution, the climate alarmism.
Which gender? Women having their rights? No, let Peter go on.
I think there are two genders, but some of us think that
there is more than one, or more than two, sorry, more than two gender. I think there
is male and female, and the rest probably is a social construct.
But back to AOC. The Brooklyn Congresswoman has showed up, oddly
enough, at, of all places, the Munich Security Conference and made a pitch for,
well, what's the old saying? To burnish her foreign policy credentials. Well, how
did she go? You be the judge. I think what we identify is that in a
rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability. And so I think what we are
seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies
around when too often, in the West, we'd look the other way for inconvenient
populations to act out these paradoxes. Yeah, that word salad there, that was a
lot more Kamala Harris than Henry Kissinger. But she wasn't done. She was
also asked what the U.S. should do if China decides to jump Taiwan. Big, easy
question. Should America commit troops to this fight for freedom? Would and should
the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is
of course a very longstanding 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.
Was anybody else out there remembering that great time Kamala Harris did the
whole routine about how Russia is a big country and Ukraine is a small country?
Well, that's, that's, that's it right there. I mean, if that was any more of a
word salad, it would need croutons. Though, to be serious, it is quite
something that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and indeed the entire
left, can accuse Trump of not standing up to dictators and then turn around and
stumble over the question of whether the U.S. should defend a democracy against
the greatest authoritarian power on earth. Seems pretty simple to me. AOC,
well, she also talked up the idea of a billionaire's tax. But as we all know
from history, these sorts of things tend to very quickly become taxes on
millionaires than on the savings of everyone who doesn't want to be
dependent on the government.
So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax or a
billionaire's tax?
I don't think that, um, I, I don't think that anyone, and that we don't have to
wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax. I think that it needs to be
done expeditiously.
And note that she did not bat away that question about whether or not she'd be
running for president. And all this matters because in a not terribly
crowded field, AOC is indeed on many insiders' shortlists for a presidential
or vice presidential bid. Now, here's the good news in all this, and this is
where the truth bomb comes in. Her faction, this hard left faction, well,
they may be ruining places like New York City under socialist mayor Zoran
Zabandani, but normal Americans are looking at what they have on offer and
increasingly saying no thanks.
If the ideology of the Democratic Party is shifting or changing, how are people
feeling about it?
Okay, so we're talking about the Democratic base, right? But what about
all that? What about all Americans, right? How about all voters, voters who
say the Democrats are now too liberal? Look at this percentage. It's 42% in
1996, 48% in 2013. Now, 58% in 2025 of all Democrats, all voters say that the
Democratic Party is too liberal.
So the left is talking to themselves, not to the general public. How good,
right? And that is going to explode in the Democrats' faces if they keep going
down this road in 2028. Personally, I say bring it on. I mean, is it too early
for me to get an AOC 2028 for President bumper sticker for the Mustang? I won't
have that little auto stop thing to deal with, will I?