“We need to have moral clarity regarding what we stand for and why,” Rubio said in a speech two years ago. “This means reinforcing our alliances. It means resisting efforts by rising and resurgent powers to subjugate their neighbors. It means being unabashed in our support for the spread of economic and political freedom.”
It hardly needs saying that Trump’s positions and inclinations are in direct conflict with every single component of that statement. No one who truly believed those words could also believe Trump belongs in the White House.
Rubio may win reelection. If so, he no doubt will go on churning out fine-sounding statements about moral clarity, alliances and the spread of economic and political freedom. Many of them may be on target.
But every one of those statements will carry an invisible asterisk: “Caution: This is the view of a man who voted for Donald Trump. Believe him at your own risk.”
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