Democrats don’t usually advertise the purpose of a foreign trip. They let it speak for itself. But this time, they said it out loud. Dozens of Democratic lawmakers headed to the Munich Security Conference last week with an explicit mission: damage control. They wanted Europe to know that Congress still valued the transatlantic alliance, regardless of what the Trump administration was doing. They were going to steady the allies, project competence, and offer an alternative vision of American leadership.
It didn’t go that way. When the world’s security establishment gathered to ask hard questions about China, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the future of the West, the Democratic bench couldn’t answer them. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio earned a standing ovation. The party that promised to clean up the mess ended up adding to it.
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