Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon discuss the legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson and a new survey that warns about a rise in antisemitism. After that, the group discusses Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech to the Munich Security Conference and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s response to it, plus Gov. Gavin Newsom accusing Sen. Ted Cruz of mocking his dyslexia, and a review of the Winter Olympics. You can listen to the show live, weekdays at 11:00 a.m. on SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly Channel 111, and then on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and here on our website. *** The show opens with the death of Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and Democratic candidate for president who has been a fixture in American politics for decades. “People had said no African American can ever be a serious candidate. This guy proved them wrong,” Carl Cannon said about Jackson’s 1984 campaign. “He was charismatic; you wanted to like him. He was larger than life, a very complicated guy.” *** And then, around minute 13, the panel talks about a new survey from the American Jewish Council, which says one-third of American Jews reported being the target of antisemitism in 2025. “It’s been a sort of growing problem,” Tom Bevan commented. “There is an antisemitism problem on the right as well, but I don’t think it’s as big as what’s going on on the left. You see the sort of far right and the far left horseshoe effect, where they kind of come close to each other again.” *** After that, at minute 19, the group discusses Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address to the Munich Security Conference, warning our European allies about the threat of “civilizational erasure” from mass migration and open borders. “It was the same sort of criticism that Trump and JD Vance have made, that Europe has weakened itself over the last few decades by supporting mass immigration, and adhering to all of these climate regulations that have weakened your economies,” Bevan said. “But it was delivered like a pill with a little bit of honey on it.” “He’s talking about the Islamization of Europe,” Cannon said. “He’s not telling these people something they haven’t already talked about, but he’s saying it in a way that he’s not acting superior. He’s not talking down to them.” *** Next, at minute 28, the group reviewed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s response to Rubio at the Munich Security conference. “She took a lot of grief for being unprepared, would probably be the most generous way of putting it,” Bevan said. “Some of her harshest critics might say she’s just not that well-read.” “She’s ignorant and smug about it,” Cannon replied. *** At minute 40, the group looks at an online dustup between Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Gavin Newsom, where Newsom took being called “historically illiterate” as a mockery of his dyslexia. “It’s not the Lincoln-Douglas debate, but this is political rhetoric in 2026,” Andrew Walworth said. “But not to take on the argument, just to claim victimhood, shows Newsom really is a modern Democrat.” “We’ve had presidents who claimed they were born in log cabins who were actually in the aristocracy. This is an old American tradition to say you overcame more than you did,” Cannon added. “But what’s missing in this generation, seems to me, is that before it showed strength of character that you overcame something. Now it’s just the victimhood stands by itself.” *** Don’t miss a single episode of the RealClearPolitics weeknight radio show – subscribe at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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