At the Munich Security Conference, someone asked me, "There are more American delegates here than have ever been at the Munich Security Conference. Why do you think it's important that you're here representing the US?"
This is a moment where we are seeing our presidential administration tear apart the Transatlantic Partnership, rip up every democratic norm, really calling into question — as was mentioned by Canadian Prime Minister Carney at the World Economic Forum — the rules-based order that we have.
So I think that one of the reasons why, not just myself but many Democrats that are here as well, is that we want to tell a larger story.
What is happening is indeed very grave. We are in a new era, domestically and globally.
There have been many leaders who've said, "We will go back." And I think that we have to recognize that we are in a new day, and in a new time.
But that does not mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk away from a rules-based order, or that we're ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy.
We identify that hypocrisy is vulnerability. What we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies, when too often in the West we look the other way from inconvenient populations to act out these paradoxes: whether it's kidnapping a foreign head of state, threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, or looking the other way in a genocide.
Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally.
Many of us are here to say, we are here and we are ready for the next chapter — not to have the world turn to isolation, but to deepen our partnership on greater commitment to integrity and our values.
There has been a day before this presidency, and there will be a day after.
And it belongs to us.
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In solidarity,
Alexandria
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