Congressperson says US president and Marco Rubio are tearing apart transatlantic alliance
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe and of seeking to introduce an “age of authoritarianism”, as she condemned his administration’s foreign policy in front of its allies’ top policymakers at the Munich Security Conference.
Speaking at a panel on populism on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez outlined what she called an “alternative vision” for a leftwing US foreign policy, challenging the Trump administration’s shift to the right in front an audience of US allies who have grown increasingly wary of the US’s increasingly nationalist – and militaristic – global posture.
In her remarks, Ocasio-Cortez said Trump and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, were “looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarianism”, as they sought to “carve out a world where Donald Trump can command the western hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber rattle around Europe and try to bully our own allies there”.
I agree with that, I also don’t think the USA is unique in its misogyny. It definitely exists elsewhere in the world. It’s gross, to be very tame and systematically depraved to be more honest with how I feel. Honestly that one “joke” has permanently inspired me that we need more women leaders.
Also, he is from Canada and openly supports the Right and most things about the US right now. I think he is from Alberta, based on previous stories told but I havent asked him directly. So in his particular case, seems like a coin flip for good policy to move him.
I think youre right that good policies can convince people, but right now with how angry and generally polar everyone in the USA is at the working class level, nobody is listening to policy.