The 2026 Munich Security Conference concluded over the weekend and, well . . . it certainly wasn’t the worst historical result to ever come out of Munich, so let’s have a round of applause for the collected diplomats of the West! Marco Rubio gave a well-received address (essentially playing “good cop” to JD Vance’s “bad cop”), telling Europe that while we love them and all, America is no longer interested in helping them “manage their decline.”

But of course I wasn’t paying much attention to the international politics of it all. I was watching elected Democrats run around Munich like hogs ...

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