Below is my column in The Hill on the recent appearance of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in Munich. They found the perfect audience for pledging to reverse many current policies and re-embrace a high-taxation, high-regulation platform. The Europeans were giddy with excitement as they doubled down on policies that have stagnated many of their economies.
Here is the column:
This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) joined the many Californians now seeking their fortune elsewhere. The difference is that Newsom is planning to come back to California, even as billionaires, investors, and companies flee his state for greener pastures.
Newsom and Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were selling a brave new world that looked a lot like the broken old world. It was an ironic moment. They were addressing countries at the Munich Security Conference that had previously destroyed their economies through socialist and far-left policies.
The rush of liberal Democratic officeholders to Europe was telling. A new poll shows that a record 58 percent of voters believe their party is “too liberal.” But Newsom and Ocasio-Cortez found a welcoming audience in Europe.
The global elite gushed over Ocasio-Cortez and sat enraptured as she rattled off socialist platitudes. That included New York Times correspondent Katrin Bennhold, who thrilled the audience by treating it as a given that Ocasio-Cortez will run for president.
Both Newsom and Ocasio-Cortez spoke of returning the U.S. to the good graces of the global elite. Newsom assured the Europeans that Trump’s reign is temporary, and that the U.S. will soon enough dismantle the “wrecking ball” that the administration has taken to the EU.
Newsom offered his leadership and his state as the model, proclaiming that “California is a stable and reliable partner” for Europe. The model includes high taxes, massive spending programs and greater bureaucratic regulations — precisely the policies that have driven the European economy into its current stagnation. In other words, Democrats were in Europe to offer precisely what Newsom outwardly condemned: “doubling down on stupid.”
When not fumbling with security questions about issues such as Taiwan, Ocasio-Cortez was demanding that wealth taxes be implemented in the U.S. “expeditiously.” Such a tax on billionaires’ wealth, including unrealized gains, is currently being pushed in California. The predictable result is that billionaires and other wealthy citizens are rushing to leave the state and taking their investments and companies with them.
Ocasio-Cortez had the audience at hello.
Rather than having Vice President J.D. Vance shaming them for their attacks on free speech, the Europeans positively gushed over Democratic leaders pushing far-left agendas. It did not matter that such policies devastated European economies in the 20th century.
In my book “Rage and the Republic,” I discuss the rise of support for socialism in both the U.S. and Europe. Many of those supporting it are young voters with no memory of the collapse of socialist economies in the 20th Century. In 1977, Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan pursued many of the same socialist policies, leading to what was called the “winter of discontent” as inflation hit 25 percent. With the collapse of the British pound, the United Kingdom had to take the demoralizing step of securing a loan from the International Monetary Fund, as if it were a developing country.
In France, François Mitterrand was also elected to pursue his “rupture with capitalism.” The French economy collapsed; Mitterrand quickly had to reverse himself and restore capitalist policies.
That history is rarely discussed or taught today. The “warmth of collectivism,” as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani put it, is back in vogue. It does not matter that, in Argentina, President Javier Milei is achieving one of the most impressive economic turnarounds in history — dramatically curtailing runaway inflation, government deficits and poverty — by reinstating free-market policies and reducing government spending.
What is chilling about Europe is that the EU has strangled growth with its increasingly centralized controls and massive bureaucracy. My book describes the instability of the EU and its global governance model. Europe is facing populist movements and, like many Democrats, the response has been calls for further consolidation of power. This included the creation of a new, uniform European corporate law, known as the “28th Regime.”
With an economy crushed by a massive EU bureaucracy and regulations, the solution of many is all too familiar: borrow more money. French President Emmanuel Macron and others want to issue “Euro bonds” to spend their way into an economic recovery — another policy ideal shared with many on the American left.
This week was only the latest effort of the American left to strengthen an alliance with the EU. Previously, American leaders such as Hillary Clinton pushed the EU to censor Americans online after free speech protections were restored by companies like Twitter. Likewise, the American left is enamored with the EU’s global bureaucracy and regulations.
Newsom and Ocasio-Cortez certainly found their element in Munich, and the EU certainly found the “reliable partners” it has longed for in creating “a new World Order with European Values.”
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
“High tax, high regulation” implies “low freedom,” which is an objective of the Left.
Looks like Whitmer did not do much better, From Photo Ops to Flops: Whitmer Can’t Field Foreign Policy Questions Abroad
https://www.michigannewssource.com/2026/02/from-photo-ops-to-flops-whitmer-cant-field-foreign-policy-questions-abroad/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
So from pics you deduce she flopped. Good lord you are stupid.
Of course I did not deduce she flopped from pictures. I read the article. If anyone is so stupid, it would be you for making such a stupid comment and not bothering reading what she actually said.
No she actually said aoc new more about foreign policy than she herself did. Pretty telling.
So much hate and inventive, here and in our society. Setting aside economic and foriegn policy issues about which so many know so little lets look at social issues.
Just on the LBGTQ issue alone we can all do better. First lets acknowledge that everyone isnt the same. Second lets acknowledge that a vast majority of Americans no hate LBGTQ people they just dont want to have that issue thrown in their face and jammed down their throat.
If we can do that we will all be much happier.
F the alphabet people. Mentally unstable creatures. They are all killers. Look at the death and destruction those psychos have caused. Go to hades.
TO DRIVE THE HATERS TO MELTDOWNS,
“President Harry Truman was a deeply religious Baptist who frequently read the Sermon on the Mount and integrated Christian values into his presidency, including Christmas messages”
Quote but no citation. Learn grammar first.
Grammar? Really?
Yes, really.
Grammar Nazi!!!!!
Grammar Nazi says “Achtung! Show zee papers!”
(We’re gonna call you Grammar Nazi now)
What Christiam values were in his choice of civilian targets for the nuclear bomb?l
Truman saved a million lives by dropping the atomic bombs. After Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions it was clear the Japanese military code of death before dishonor was going to be the fight offered. The battle plan was militarily evaluated that a land invasion of mainland Japan would result in the deaths of one million people, including US soldiers.
Real life boils down to hard choices sometimes that are paid for with human currency.
What targets would you have preferred? Obviously, you can quickly rattle off their names and your reasons, otherwise, you never would have made that comment.
Would you have preferred continued fire-bombing of Japanese cities?
The Europeans must have thought that Hilary, Gavin and AOC were part of a gong show and were waiting for them to get the hook.
Has anyone noticed that the IRS REQUIRES that you enter the balance of your mortgage, when listing home mortgage interest as a deduction. Your mortgage balance has NOTHING to do with your interest paid.
Can you see the writing on the wall???
No I can’t see the writing.
Apparently you are not aware that the mortgage interest deduction now is capped for mortgages over $750,000 (married filers), or $375,000 (single filer). This was introduced by the first Trump administration.
Therefore you are required to state the balance in order to claim the deduction.
Of course if you lie, they will eventually get you, because your mortgage is public record at the local County Recorder’s Office.
And the IRS has Form 1098 that they can use to deduce your specific interest payments over a year. Its required by the fed. gov. The IRS can use that form to cross ref. your 1040 declar. amt. with what the mortgage lender gave them. Folks, do not F with the IRS.
I don’t know Bob, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they all left together in a tiny two door Fiat… like the ones the circus clowns use🤡🤡🤡
Rubio In Hungary Campaigning For Orban
Both Hungary and Slovakia have hailed Trump’s efforts to engage Russia and have expressed skepticism about Western support for Ukraine. Orban underscored that point on Monday, using the same hypothetical scenario Trump routinely brings up in his own remarks.
“If Donald Trump had been the president of the United States, this war would never have broken out,” Orban said.
Rubio expressed exasperation that Washington’s efforts, criticized in some parts of Europe for prioritizing Moscow’s demands over Kyiv’s, weren’t being hailed more widely.
“This is one of the few wars I’ve ever seen where some people in the international community condemn you for trying to help end a war, but that’s what we’re going to do as long as our role and engagement is a positive one,” Rubio said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/16/rubio-hungary-orban-trump/
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One has to seriously ask why the U.S. Secretary of State is campaigning for a Putin protégé. And if that’s not clueless enough, Rubio wonders why all of Europe isn’t siding with Putin against Ukraine!
Putin protégé you say? Only in that brainless head of yours. And Rubio? That empty skull of yours is hearing echoes now too?
What if Orban loses his re-election this spring? Staying neutral is preferable to betting on the wrong horse.
Trump has already made that blunder with is “friends” Putin and Xi.
Really, got proof or are you lying as usual?
“. . . a Putin protégé.”
Apparently, Orban is not a faithful protege. Hungary supplies some 40% of Ukraine’s electricity.
No. Hungary supplies 40% of electricity IMPORTS by Ukraine.
Currently, Ukraine imports only 25% of its electricity. The rest, 75%, is generated domestically.
Hungary supplies 40% of that 25% of IMPORTS which is about 10%.
“Hungary supplies . . .”
Thank you for the correction. I misread the story.
To you saying 75% of electricity being generated domestically, I say not anymore. Ukraine generating capacity is being degraded quickly and also substations that are used when importing power are being blown up every night it seems.
Ukraine, to use poker terms, is playing a losing hand, and holding onto the joker (Z) is a poor strategy. This is a war that is lost and now Z is just raising the body count to drain the last of the money while the country is being drained of it’s blood.
Newsom, Ocasio-Cortez, and Clinton traveled to Europe to actively undermine the democratically elected president of the United States, interfering in President Trump’s foreign policy.
How about a pre-campaign tour to recruit euro commies in 2028.
Funny thing during AOC’s incoherent talk, we all thought she sounded stupid, imagine what the euros thought because they aren’t fluent in English.
And they applauded!
They speak better English than 90% of Americans… and 100% of MAGA supporters.
Idiotic post. Disappear, fool.
Ya see Walter, even your daily grammatical f-ups prove him right. Its a comment not a post. Learn the difference old man.
Better? You got undeniable proof?
BTW. Americans do not speak English, they speak American English.
Learn proper grammar.
Grammar Nazi says “Hand over zee proof! vee have vays to make you talk!”
Notice the volume of garbage spewed by the “Anti-American Cult of Hate God First”. She wails forever about her favorite topic, hate for Trump and All Patriotic Americans, but not a peep about her longed for master, Slick, Willy Blythe, and those who perished because he lied. 800,000 slaughtered while he diddled Monica.
He was named Slick Willie by Democrats in Arkansas.
He ran as the pro education candidate, while the Little Rock schools were under control of an out of State Federal Judge.
Perhaps it just means what the meaning of Is is.
And assaulted coeds
Proof? If we take your word, that means you have personnel knowledge of the act. So how was it?
Let them talk. The more they say, the deeper they dig themselves into a hole. Gotta love it, California and New York are two of hardest places to do business and they hold themselves up as models. At the end of the day, their agenda is running out of both time and steam. When this collapses, it will be interesting to see them try to jump ship.
As for the Europeans, who cares?
Turley Writes:
“Both Newsom and Ocasio-Cortez spoke of returning the U.S. to the good graces of the global elite”.
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Global elite as opposed to ‘who’..??
The Trump administration features multiple billionaires including those who would never have a job in government if they weren’t billionaires.
And one should note that special diplomat Steve Witkoff is not only a billionaire but an investment partner with Donald Trump in cryptocurrencies and real estate.
So when Turley dismisses the ‘global elite’ as being representative of the ‘old order’, it’s just meaningless semantics. Trump’s billionaire associates are just as rich as any ‘global elite’ has ever been.
DEM party has MORE billionaires DF ANON!!
Hey DF K(aren), Trump 87 B’s, Demds 14 B’s. Source US treasury.
Trump 87 B’s, Demds 14 B’s.
Well, that proves it. LOL. What an idiot!
Now you know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
sick boob
She meant elite european communists. Not the lowly regular communists, the more equal ones.
They’re the ones that the US is ‘not in good graces with’.
Also she accomplished pandering to china over the taiwan question. Ka-ching $. I’d say she delivered her message and proved she can double-speak, a requirement, she’s just not any good at it with all those ahh’s and uhmm’s. She could learn a thing from Kam-a-la. Now she can do it endlessly and it seems all she has to do is think of ‘unburdened’ and she puts all self-awareness aside, like *pop* right out of her head.
I find it highly offensive that they didn’t let Marco Rubio speak exclusively for the US. If these two any integrity or patriotism, they would have coordinated what they wanted said with the State Dept.
They are a total embarrassment. They don’t speak officially for the US.
. They were unauthorized.
Ah, the perfection of juxtaposition.
Only a fool would take up the task of bettering Marco Rubio in these and related matters, in any matters.
And two fools did.
FOOL
Those fools were invited. By whom. no idea. Thankfully they didn’t appear on stage; they were in dedicated conference rms. for specific themes. They ven had the mayor of boston as a panelist focused on city leadership and diplomacy. Another idiot wasting tax dollars. Called boston a global city … I feel sick….
. PT, isn’t it a crime to undermine the government of the United States and the citizens of the United States with foreign nations?
. Subversion of valid authority ? What is wrong with you people. 🤪
Yes, the Logan Act makes it illegal for American citizens to engage in diplomacy with foreign govt.s without prior approval from the Secy. of State. These putzes got away with their grandstanding because the MSC is an open forum. But it looked terrible to have these 2 speak.
. Doesn’t fly, anon. They’re elected officials subverting elected authority of the United States with foreign powers. They’re quislings in reality. They’re traitors working as puppets of foreign nations to weaken the United States internally.
It is so Ironic that two of the least productive politicos of the American left go to Europe to get accolades for literally talking vacant mush to the point of even the Germans around Davos Gavvy showing pure cringe on their faces as he just could not be bothered to read the room and just plodded on with leftist party rhetoric on all things fascist. And Occulus Cotex did not disappoint in the least with her blitheringly silly imitation of Kamallah queen of word salads.
With any luck at all, Gruesome and Occasional Cortex will be the 2028 DNC candidates for President and VP.
With absolute certainty, I understand that it was the vision of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, John Adams et al. that the head communists, Alhysteria O’crazio Corkheads and “Goofy Gavin” Newsom, would lead the United States of America on its 250th birthday.
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“We the People of the United States…secure the Blessings of Liberty TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY.”
– Preamble to the Constitution of the American Founders, 1789
Distraction much JT?
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), decided not to run for reelection. Nehls said that “if Donald Trump says, ‘jump three feet high and scratch your head,’ we all jump three feet high and scratch our head” after Trump won the 2024 election.
How high can you jump JT?
Donald Trump only told me to help Make America Great Again by voting for him. And it worked!!!
Sorry but this country is NOT going to elect a democrat president anytime soon, doesn’t matter who they run.
Anyone who thinks otherwise still doesn’t understand why DJT won.
AOC is a joke. If cuteness outweighs intelligence, sobriety, common sense and courage then she’s got a chance. Otherwise talk about her future in politics is just a really bad ongoing joke.
“Quiet, Quiet Piggy” DJT
“I just kiss. I don’t even wait, when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy” DJT
DJT My hero.
What do you grab, Brucey?
My hero too! Imagine: he got elected twice after that!
It really digs at you that we don’t care that DJT is a normal, red-blooded American male.
I love that! screech for me commie! wail! say bye bye spheres: cuba venez iran (of all places). Run back to North Korea while you can.
3 more years! Your head is going to explode from TDS by then! America is back baby!
“Imagine: he got elected twice after that!”
Yes he did. Speaks to the utter failure of our educational system that we have so many adults that have no idea how bad things can go when you elect a racist, fascist strongman as your President. e.g. See Hitler, 1939-1945.
Phony Dem talking points the LOSER ANON repeats!!
Oh, you mean like Bill Clinton who did not make a phone call to the UN to save 800,000 innocent black, men, women and children? The rivers in Rwanda clogged with their massacred bodies
You filthy animal
As many as 10,000 bodies from Rwanda’s massacres have washed down the Kagera River into Lake Victoria in Uganda in the last few weeks
Corpses flowed under the Rusumo Falls bridge into Lake Victoria, causing a severe health emergency in Uganda. This horrific event highlighted the river’s role in the genocide’s mass casualties
Due to the lying, cheating, immoral slob you worship, the most vile, disgusting PUNK in our history
What were the American Founders who, generally by state, restricted the vote to male, European, 21, 50 lbs. Sterling/50 acres, resulting in a turnout of 11.6% in 1788.
No democracy, since inception in Greece, has ever perpetrated an insane one-man, one-vote “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., hired help).”
I smiled when she made the comment about horses in Mexico.
Her being a Democratic Socialist (Communist lite) bartender, I wonder what she calls a rum and coke with lime, a Cuba’ pobre’ or a Cuba Vago?!
What a great scam she and Ilhan have found…
” If cuteness outweighs intelligence,”
I’m sorry, but if you consider her “cute”, I must seriously question your taste in women…
‘Watch Out it is hot’ the common refrain to children when they are about to touch a hot stove, or: ‘You’ll get burnt playing with fire’, which is what I’d say to the liberal American, the party of the left is absurdly playing with fire when they propose the non-sense of using the philosophy of socialism/communism as a governing theorem while not considering the fine print of dystopian history where man has tried: “All for one and one for all”. The brotherhood of the party lies way down at the bottom of a Communist parties’ hierarchy, after passing through Councils at national and regional levels, local secretaries, regional cooperatives, unions and numerous boards do you finally reach your fellow comrade on an equal basis. The question arises who the Conductors are, and do they also pick the corn. Comradeship lasts only so long when efforts are in disproportion.
You tell a young child, don’t touch the stove, it’s hot. The kid looks back at you and says, what’s hot?
Two wrongs don’t equal the right solution:
For 25 years Republicans support “Borrow & Spend” which is way worse than “Tax & Spend” policies.
Most voters would like to see a return on their taxpayer-financed investments! Maybe a “Do Not Call/Text List” with teeth? Maybe underground power lines? Maybe bigger water reservoirs for summer droughts? Maybe citizens owning our own personal data? Maybe reducing the National Debt? Maybe cars and products that don’t spy in their owners?
Voters don’t want to remodel the East Wing of the WH. Voters don’t want children detained in warehouse gulags. Voters don’t want to invade Greenland.
Quite the mouthful. So fix it.
Is that a Bill Clinton quote from the Oval Office?
While speaking to HerMonica?
The State of Texas is conspiring with the Obama administration to undermine a federal court order so they can keep innocent children in prison. ACLU
Do communist-state-destroying idiots and intellectually challenged, word-saladic illegal aliens have any constitutional “…authority to negotiate and make treaties…” with foreign nations?
Only if they can find them on a map first. And spell it.
It’s almost like Davos Gavvy did a Logan Act violation.