Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — whose name has been bandied about as a possible 2028 presidential contender — took issue over the weekend with some of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remarks at the Munich Security Conference.Rather than successfully critique anything Rubio said on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez instead exposed more of her historical illiteracy.Rubio's speechVice President JD Vance enraged a crowd of European officials last year at the Munich Security Conference by calling out their suppression of popular political movements and ideas, crackdown on religious liberties, and ruinous mass migration policies.While pointed, Vance's criticism of Europe's censorious and self-destructive ways was constructive and imbued with the hope that Western nations across the Atlantic might return to the values they once shared in common with the United States.'Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to "Western culture."'In a less-scathing sequel to Vance's speech, Rubio discussed on Feb. 14 the deep civilizational bonds that he figures the U.S. and Europe still share, the opportunity for concerted renewal, and the way forward to a "new century of prosperity.""We are part of one civilization — Western civilization," said Rubio. "We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir."Rubio noted further that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, has embarked on the "task of renewal and restoration, driven by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and as vital as our civilization's past.""While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe," added the secretary. Whereas Europeans couldn't stomach Vance's speech on-theme last year, the audience gave Rubio a standing ovation following his speech on Saturday.Bucking the revisionismWhile Europeans were receptive to the secretary's discussion of civilizational inheritance and common responsibility, Ocasio-Cortez apparently had trouble with one of Rubio's passing remarks.During a softball interview at the Technical University of Berlin on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez cited Rubio's speech as evidence of the "ascent of the right even in places like Munich.""Marco Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to 'Western culture,'" said the congresswoman, employing scare quotes in reference to Western culture.RELATED: 'Qualm your t*ts': Ocasio-Cortez makes embarrassing mistake while defending Don Lemon — and the ridicule is hilarious Cornado sets out on his expedition for Quivira in 1540. Getty Images. "My favorite part," continued Ocasio-Cortez, "was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain. I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African slaves — enslaved peoples — would like to have a word on that."In his speech, Rubio stated:Our expansion into the interior followed the footsteps of French fur traders and explorers whose names, by the way, still adorn the street signs and towns names all across the Mississippi Valley. Our horses, our ranches, our rodeos — the entire romance of the cowboy archetype that became synonymous with the American West — these were born in Spain. And our largest and most iconic city was named New Amsterdam before it was named New York.Ocasio-Cortez's critics were quick to point out that horses and cowboy culture were, as Rubio suggested, a European export to North America — including to New Spain, which ultimately became the home of Ocasio-Cortez's would-be fact-checking, Spanish-speaking Mexicans.'Your IQ is lower than the temp in my freezer.'While ancient horses once roamed North America, they apparently went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The species hitherto unknown to the native population was, however, reintroduced to the continent by Spaniards and other Europeans in the 15th and 16th centuries.Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer sailing under the Spanish flag, imported the first horses the continent had seen in thousands of years on his second voyage to the New World in 1493. Twenty-six years later — and after decades of Europeans breeding horses in the Caribbean, where Ocasio-Cortez's family hails from originally — the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought 16 horses to what is now Mexico.With continued European exploration and expansion, horses were ultimately bred and spread across the continent, and mastered by European settlers and Indians alike. The corresponding horseman culture also didn't appear ex nihilo.Although it also references the Irish "Cau-boys" of the High Middle Ages, Fort Worth's Sid Richardson Museum notes in its relevant overview that "cowboy culture in the American West can be traced to the Spanish tradition of the vaquero.""Derived from the word vaca (Spanish for cow), the vaqueros would become renowned for their skills and adaptability as Spain expanded their North American empire westward from what is now Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico to the Franciscan missions in California by the late 1700s," noted History.com.Normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck responded to Ocasio-Cortez, writing, "Yeah literally every culture learned the cowboy trade from Spanish vaqueros. I’m sorry that your IQ is lower than the temp in my freezer."John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at the Federalist, quipped, "Just wait till she finds out where Mexicans came from."Like Blaze News? 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The “deep state” — the hidden network of unelected bureaucrats, intelligence officials, military leaders, and other insiders who secretly control government policy regardless of who is elected — has long been written off as a conspiracy theory.But BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says seven recently declassified documents from Richard Nixon's 1975 grand jury testimony are evidence that the deep state doesn’t just exist — it’s been forcefully active for decades.On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz interviews Newsmax chief Washington correspondent James Rosen about the bombshell he helped bring to light. Rosen, author of the 2008 book “The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate,” has been digging into this story for over 30 years. He explains that the seven newly unsealed pages from Nixon’s secret 1975 grand jury testimony finally confirm one of the most explosive (and deliberately buried) scandals of the Nixon era: the Moorer-Radford espionage affair.Back in 1971, top military leaders felt ignored by President Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger. They were upset that big foreign-policy decisions were being made without them.In response, the Joint Chiefs of Staff launched a secret spying operation inside the White House. They used a young Navy yeoman named Charles Radford to steal thousands of top-secret documents.“He took a copy of every document that came across his vision. What he couldn't copy, he memorized. He dove through waste baskets and burn bags. He literally rifled the briefcases of Henry Kissinger while he slept on overnight flights,” says Rosen.“It’s estimated that this yeoman stole 5,000 classified documents from the National Security Council over a year's time, 1970 to '71, in wartime, and delivered those documents to the Joint Chiefs of Staff through the admirals,” he adds.When these ultra-sensitive documents Radford had stolen started appearing in newspaper columns just days after high-level meetings, Nixon’s “plumbers” — which Rosen describes as a White House “special investigative unit” — quickly traced the leaks back to Radford and the Pentagon spy ring.The White House was stunned to discover that the U.S. military had been running an espionage operation against its own commander in chief during wartime.“[The Senate Armed Services Committee] held classified closed-door hearings, but everybody involved had good reason to want to let the matter drop, and ultimately nothing was done,” says Rosen.For starters, Nixon didn't want to publicly "vilify" the military during the Vietnam era, when returning veterans were already facing widespread scorn and being labeled “baby killers," Rosen explains. Further, Attorney General John Mitchell reminded Nixon of his own administration's secret operations, making a full-blown scandal risky for everyone.So the affair was hushed up. Radford and the involved admirals were quietly reassigned to remote posts; the Pentagon liaison office was dissolved; and no charges were filed. Brief classified Senate hearings in 1974 fizzled out amid the Watergate storm.Rosen, who first detailed this from Nixon's 1971 White House tapes in his 2002 Atlantic article “Nixon and the Chiefs,” says these seven newly declassified pages from Nixon’s 1975 grand jury testimony add the former president's own sworn account of the betrayal.It shows unelected military leaders actively undermining an elected president over policy disagreements — proof, he argues, that the deep state isn't a modern myth but a decades-old “beast.”Check out the full eye-opening interview above.Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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