I see a number of Democrats with presidential aspirations attended the Munich Conference last weekend to showcase their foreign policy gravitas. AOC in particular proved that embarrassing the US abroad is a bipartisan project. Her response to the Taiwan question was worthy of Kamala Harris in its painful incoherence. If she was a Republican, you’d see it in a SNL sketch. But as a Democrat she had the NYT complaining it was “microscopically dissected”.

I was especially impressed with her emancipatory geography when she took Trump to task for reaching below the equator to snatch the Venezuelan dictator. And her usual vocal fry and quasi-Marxist rhetoric reminded me why she is my preference for the Democrats’ next candidate. The California and Michigan governors also showed up, but didn’t make nearly the same impression.