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There comes a point in the career of every contemporary Republican politician when they will be forced to do, say, or defend something that is broadly unconscionable. This mandatory inevitable heel turn is the price of conservative political ambition in the Donald Trump era. In exchange for the right to seek and attain national office in the party that he leads, Trump—in a curdled neofascist parody of the wedding scene from The Godfather—always eventually requires his supplicants to prove their loyalty to him by taking on his vendettas, bigotries, hatreds, and obsessions as their own. What’s more, he prefers that they do it with gusto.

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[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago

Tne mainstream media gave him the `articulate and bright and clean´ treatment back in 2016 as a presidential hopeful. Remember they called him a moderate?? His political platform was transparent Christian Nationalism!!? So, he was always a hypocritical fascist cocksucker??? Duh

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He’s like reek from game of thrones

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Totally unfair comparison. Reek was tortured and had his balls forcibly cut off to become what he was.

Rubio was like that from the start.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

He used to suck, and continues to suck. That's what happened.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

He was always a piece of shit. I never understood why people tried to pretend he wasn't

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] jonne@infosec.pub 16 points 2 days ago

Nah, Rubio has just always had the ambition for more, and being secretary of state would give him a leg up in future presidential contests in normal times. The problem is that being in Trump's cabinet is actually never a good thing, as you'll either be forced to do things that are the opposite of what you've stood for your whole career, you do something illegal, or you quit/get fired in disgrace.

And then, when we get into a post-Trump era someday, you won't even be able to denounce Trump in the same way every Republican is now pretending they never liked George W Bush.

[–] badbrainstorm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

This. Came to say blackmail

[–] griff@lemmings.world 3 points 3 days ago

Marco gone grey, through & through, to his very marrow…

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Now that he is hanging with the rich he probably plays a lot of polo.