A decade after losing the presidency to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has learned nothing. In a testy exchange with Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, Clinton responded angrily to the observation that Trump’s rise has been made possible by left-wing extremism.
During a panel titled “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values,” Clinton claimed that Trump was modeling himself after Vladimir Putin. “He has betrayed the West, he’s betrayed human values, he’s betrayed the NATO charter, the Atlantic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” she stated.
“You really don’t like him,” Macinka, the conservative leader of the Motorists for Themselves party, remarked wryly. He noted that Trump’s election was in part a reaction to policies that went “too far.” Clinton instantly took umbrage and committed herself to making it nearly impossible for him to finish a sentence.
“What Trump is doing in America, I think it is a reaction,” Macinka observed. “Reaction for some policies that really went too far, too far from regular people. We saw the cancel culture. We saw the ‘woke’ revolution. I don’t agree with the gender revolution, the climate alarmism…”
“Which gender? Women having their rights?” Clinton interrupted with the smarmy, condescending expression that drove voters to the polls for Trump.
“I think there are two genders…” Macinka tried again.
“How about the half of us, can we have our rights?” Clinton interjected, missing his point or attempting to deliberately obscure it. Macinka, of course, was not referring to women’s rights. He was referring to gender ideology and the alleged existence of some 72 genders.
“Some of us think there are more than two genders,” Macinka responded pointedly. “I think there is male and female and the rest, probably, [are] a social construct. That is something that went too far.”
Clinton realized it was time to change the subject and pivoted awkwardly to Ukraine. “But does that justify selling out the people of Ukraine, who are on the front lines, dying to save their freedom?” she snarked with faux outrage. “And their two genders, if that’s what you’re worried about?”
Macinka’s saintlike patience ran out. “Can I please finish my point? I’m sorry that it makes you nervous. I’m really sorry for that.” There were chuckles from the audience. “It doesn’t make me nervous,” Clinton snapped. “It makes me very, very unhappy.”
One suspects that Clinton is often very unhappy. Her sensitivity regarding Macinka’s point about gender ideology is unsurprising. She made the trans agenda a key part of her failed 2016 campaign, supporting the ‘right’ of trans-identifying male students to use female facilities and championing the Equality Act. She described trans rights as her “highest priority.”
In 2022, Clinton changed her mind, stating that the trans agenda “should not be a priority” during elections, although she hastened to assure irate LGBT groups that she was still onside.
The Democratic Party has recognized that their embrace of the transgender movement hurt them badly during the 2024 presidential election; Hillary’s husband, former president Bill Clinton, was so alarmed by Trump ads targeting Kamala Harris on her support for taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners that he contacted the Harris campaign and begged them to repudiate the policy. They declined.
The ‘woke revolution’ has not only fueled the rise of populism; it has also provided convenient fodder for Putin’s propaganda machine. Putin regularly contrasts the gender insanity gripping his geopolitical foes with Russia’s own increasingly hardline approach to LGBT activism. The West, he claims, has become desperately degenerate as it departs from Christianity.
Indeed, after the brutal Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was swapped for U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner in 2022, Bout promptly went on Russian TV to discuss his experience:
What is happening in the West is simply the suicide of civilization, and if this suicide isn’t prevented, at the very least outside the Western world, in the world not controlled by the Anglo-Saxons, then the entire planet will commit suicide … Can you imagine that in American schools they’re now teaching first graders, six and seven year old first graders, that it turns out there are 72 genders!
The enemies of the West have always accused us of moral degeneracy. Hillary Clinton and her fellow progressives, however, have made it sinfully easy to paint us as both immoral and insane. When much of the political establishment argues that sex changes for children are a human right, our enemies don’t have to lie about us anymore.
The subtitle of the panel that triggered hostilities between Hillary Clinton and Petr Macinka was a poignant one: “What Remains of Common Values.” That is an essential question, but first we must ask: Which values? The values that gave rise to Christian Europe and the United States? Or the moral insanity that has swept the West like a deadly fever since the Sexual Revolution? Who attacked our ‘common values’ first?
The truth that angered Hillary Clinton in Munich last week is that the revolution she champions is destroying the West at home and weakening the West abroad. Petr Macinka was right. I suspect she knew it.
Munich Meltdown: Hillary Clinton Clashes With Czech Leader Over ‘Woke’ Politics
Foreign Minister Petr Macinka of the Czech Republic
WOJTEK RADWANSKI / AFP
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A decade after losing the presidency to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has learned nothing. In a testy exchange with Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, Clinton responded angrily to the observation that Trump’s rise has been made possible by left-wing extremism.
During a panel titled “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values,” Clinton claimed that Trump was modeling himself after Vladimir Putin. “He has betrayed the West, he’s betrayed human values, he’s betrayed the NATO charter, the Atlantic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” she stated.
“You really don’t like him,” Macinka, the conservative leader of the Motorists for Themselves party, remarked wryly. He noted that Trump’s election was in part a reaction to policies that went “too far.” Clinton instantly took umbrage and committed herself to making it nearly impossible for him to finish a sentence.
“What Trump is doing in America, I think it is a reaction,” Macinka observed. “Reaction for some policies that really went too far, too far from regular people. We saw the cancel culture. We saw the ‘woke’ revolution. I don’t agree with the gender revolution, the climate alarmism…”
“Which gender? Women having their rights?” Clinton interrupted with the smarmy, condescending expression that drove voters to the polls for Trump.
“I think there are two genders…” Macinka tried again.
“How about the half of us, can we have our rights?” Clinton interjected, missing his point or attempting to deliberately obscure it. Macinka, of course, was not referring to women’s rights. He was referring to gender ideology and the alleged existence of some 72 genders.
“Some of us think there are more than two genders,” Macinka responded pointedly. “I think there is male and female and the rest, probably, [are] a social construct. That is something that went too far.”
Clinton realized it was time to change the subject and pivoted awkwardly to Ukraine. “But does that justify selling out the people of Ukraine, who are on the front lines, dying to save their freedom?” she snarked with faux outrage. “And their two genders, if that’s what you’re worried about?”
Macinka’s saintlike patience ran out. “Can I please finish my point? I’m sorry that it makes you nervous. I’m really sorry for that.” There were chuckles from the audience. “It doesn’t make me nervous,” Clinton snapped. “It makes me very, very unhappy.”
One suspects that Clinton is often very unhappy. Her sensitivity regarding Macinka’s point about gender ideology is unsurprising. She made the trans agenda a key part of her failed 2016 campaign, supporting the ‘right’ of trans-identifying male students to use female facilities and championing the Equality Act. She described trans rights as her “highest priority.”
In 2022, Clinton changed her mind, stating that the trans agenda “should not be a priority” during elections, although she hastened to assure irate LGBT groups that she was still onside.
The Democratic Party has recognized that their embrace of the transgender movement hurt them badly during the 2024 presidential election; Hillary’s husband, former president Bill Clinton, was so alarmed by Trump ads targeting Kamala Harris on her support for taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners that he contacted the Harris campaign and begged them to repudiate the policy. They declined.
The ‘woke revolution’ has not only fueled the rise of populism; it has also provided convenient fodder for Putin’s propaganda machine. Putin regularly contrasts the gender insanity gripping his geopolitical foes with Russia’s own increasingly hardline approach to LGBT activism. The West, he claims, has become desperately degenerate as it departs from Christianity.
Indeed, after the brutal Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was swapped for U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner in 2022, Bout promptly went on Russian TV to discuss his experience:
The enemies of the West have always accused us of moral degeneracy. Hillary Clinton and her fellow progressives, however, have made it sinfully easy to paint us as both immoral and insane. When much of the political establishment argues that sex changes for children are a human right, our enemies don’t have to lie about us anymore.
The subtitle of the panel that triggered hostilities between Hillary Clinton and Petr Macinka was a poignant one: “What Remains of Common Values.” That is an essential question, but first we must ask: Which values? The values that gave rise to Christian Europe and the United States? Or the moral insanity that has swept the West like a deadly fever since the Sexual Revolution? Who attacked our ‘common values’ first?
The truth that angered Hillary Clinton in Munich last week is that the revolution she champions is destroying the West at home and weakening the West abroad. Petr Macinka was right. I suspect she knew it.
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