In neighboring Czech Republic, an international star shone brightly over the weekend. Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motorists) made headlines with a heated exchange of views with former US Secretary of State and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.
The election leader of the coalition movement rejected the statements of the unsuccessful candidate for the White House, who criticized Donald Trump for his approach to Europe. Similar statements were also supported by other panel members, such as Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski and Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev.
Sikorski and his wife Anne Applebaum, as well as the director of the Sofia Liberal Institute, are on the same side of the ideological spectrum as Clinton, so Macinka apparently walked into the lion's den. The only populist among them was the head of the Hungarian think tank Gladden Pappin.
The new Czech minister has leaned into the social experiments that Clinton's allies in the political arena have long promoted—from the trans agenda to climate alarmism to the well-known cancel culture. He described Trump's victory as a symptom of his opposition "going too far."
Paradoxically, Clintonadmitted that the situation had gotten out of control on the issue of migration. "It has gone too far, it is causing disruption and destabilization, and it needs to be resolved in a humane way with secure borders," said the former candidate, who in 2016 harshly criticized Trump for building a wall on the border with Mexico.
America for Macinka, Central Europe against
As expected, the reaction of the Czech and Slovak mainstream media was on the side of Clinton and Sikorski. According to the Seznam Zprávy portal, Sikorski "schooled"Macinka when they discussed European bureaucracy, with the Czech minister arguing that the European Commission has too much power for an unelected institution. The head of Polish diplomacy countered that the Commission is created by the European Parliament, as is the case in the Czech Republic and Poland.
Slovakia's Sme dailyjoinedin, saying that Macinka "was schooled by his more experienced colleagues," while the N dailyquotedopposition MP and former interior minister Vít Rakušan, who described the speech as "embarrassing."
However, it turns out that billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October 2022 and later renamed it X, was right. "Today, you are the media," he wrote the day after Trump's inauguration in response to "traditional" media reports about his raised right hand.
The legacy media is pure propaganda.
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2025
You are the media now. https://t.co/lgkIbzcAZP—
Several accounts on the X network with millions of followers expressed their support for Macinka and, unlike Czech and Slovak portals, stood behind his arguments.
Australian entrepreneur Mario Nawfal has approximately three million followers on X, and he and Musk often share each other's posts. These three million people have thus noticed a different narrative than the one commonly spread by the mainstream media.
"The Czech Deputy Prime Minister criticized his colleagues in a panel discussion for using the label 'fascist,'" he wrote, adding that Clinton's reaction "said more" than if she had explicitly spoken out.
Macinka was also supported by well-known conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, who claimed that the former first lady suffers from "Trump Derangement Syndrome." This is a pseudoscientific term for the hysterical reactions of the president's opponents [not used for well-argued criticism, ed. note].
According to Macinka, left-wing and liberal rhetoric labeling opponents as "fascists" has gone too far, to which Clinton responded with silence — a fact that was also noticed by other widely followed accounts on X.
Among the traditional media, Fox News, the long-running most-watched station in the US with 28 million viewers, sided with the Czech foreign minister. It posted three short clips with ironic captions on X.The firstwas a reference to the phrase "checkmate" in the form of Czech Mate,followedby a status using "confrontation with reality": Reality Czech.
In another post, Fox News recommended "checking the science," or Czech The Science. Seznam Zprávy also noticed the support of the most-watched television station in a later update.
Ideological divide
At the end of the Munich conference, Macinka spoke about the insurmountable ideological barrier between conservative and progressive voices. His call for "calm" could also be seen as an attempt to reduce social tension and polarization.
However, it is unlikely that Sikorski, a product of the liberal establishment, would agree to this. In the 1980s, he obtained British citizenship, worked for the American Enterprise Institute and the London-based European Leadership Network for many years, and married one of the most ardent Russophobic journalistsever.
It is also almost inconceivable that someone like Hillary Clinton would accept the call for social reconciliation – just a few hours earlier, she moderateda discussion on "women's rights" (under which she recognizes nothing other than abortion), attended by a more than controversial congressman.
And while Macinka spoke on Saturday about the harmfulness of gender ideology, a representative of the Delaware constituency named Sarah McBride entered the debate on "fundamental rights."
In addition to McBride, who introduces herself on her congressional website as a "congresswoman," the panel also included Binaifer Nowrojee, president of the Open Society Foundation (OSF); Theresa Reintke, head of the German Green Party's European faction; and Neil Datta, chair of the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
McBride won the 2024 election in Delaware's only district. His election was the reason why South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace pushed through an amendment to the rules of procedure that prohibits biological men from entering spaces designated for women.
McBride began by thanking "Secretary Emerita" Clinton, and also addressed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, both of whom were seated in the audience. The congressman began broadly by saying that "after decades of historic progress in gender equality... we are facing a well-organized and financially powerful right-wing regressive movement."
"They have really put 'trans people' at the center of this effort, but we should recognize that the consequences of this anti-trans effort — not only because of its proximity, but also because of its intentionality — will have consequences for women of all backgrounds," he said.
"Ultimately, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, and sexism are rooted in the same prejudice, in the belief that one perception at birth should determine who you are, how you behave, what you do, who you love, and how you dress. And that is why threats against trans people are threats against all women," he continued, to appreciative nods from the audience.
It was not immediately clear what "transgender people" had in common with women or even with the security architecture of the collective West after World War II. However, Clinton's participation clearly expressed support for the illusion that a man can change into a woman during his lifetime, and the president of the George Soros Foundation was apparently not opposed to this either.
Contrary to "transphobia," the alleged fear of people with gender dysphoria, it is transactivists who, hand in hand with left-wing extremists, have recently been spreading violence under the banner of Trantifa. Basically, these are people who, on the one hand, claim that "words are violence," but on the other hand, consider their own violence to be "political expression."
Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the assassination of conservative debater Charlie Kirk, was in a relationship with a radical of this type, and the shooter at a Catholic church in Minnesota also"identified" with the opposite sex.
The most recent case of a trans shooter was Jesse Van Rootselaar, who shot eight people, including five children, at a high school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. However, there had already been a series of sectarian murders committed by an "anarchist-vegan" community called the Zizians.
Even this did not prevent the Munich Security Conference or, more recently, the European Parliament from repeatedly claiming that "trans women are women."
They are apparently the last international institutions that have not yet abandoned this ideological relic. And the fact that even the UN has overtaken them in reversing course should not be taken lightly.