An image for our times
The second Donald Trump regime is not even two months old, and it has its indelible image. This image of Secretary of State Marco Rubio sinking into a couch as Trump and his henchman JD Vance mug Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenksyy is already a byword for moral cowardice. The first Trump regime was awful. But there were enough guardrails so that the worst that could have happened did not. This second iteration is everything we feared the first time around and more. Trump learned one thing: choose people who are completely devoted to your cause. Don't hire anyone who will tell you "no". Which leaves the question of a man like Rubio. Of course, he already revealed himself to be craven and cowardly by his behavior during 2017-2021, after he had called Trump a danger during the 2016 Republican primaries. He joined most other Republicans in giving themselves over to thralldom to Trump and his fascist movement. And during Joe Biden's presidency, he, along with every o...
