The Anti-Anti-Trump Right Looks to Marco Rubio for Salvation
They’re Already Running the 2028 Campaign. It Won’t Work.
Saturday, the President waged an unconstitutional war from his private club, killing 80+ people in a failed regime change attempt. Sunday, his Secretary of State said Venezuela must “make a deal before they run out of oil.” Monday, ICE shot a U.S. citizen dead in Minneapolis. Tuesday, armed militias hunted Trump supporters through Venezuelan streets while Maduro’s government—the one we supposedly toppled—remained firmly in control.
Wednesday, CBS Evening News ran a puff piece about anchor Tony Dokoupil’s emotional Miami childhood memories. That same evening, CBS News anchor concluded the broadcast: “For Rubio’s hometown fans, which are many around here in Miami, it is a sign of how Florida, once an American punchline, has become a leader on the world stage. Marco Rubio, we salute you. You’re the ultimate Florida man.”
The timing gives one all the necessary clues for moral discernment.
The anti-anti-Trump right—the remnants of establishment conservatism who spent 2016-2020 wringing their hands about Trump’s vulgarity while ultimately accommodating his every move—has found its savior. Not to save the constitutional framework from destruction. To save themselves from accountability for enabling that destruction.
Marco Rubio, they’ve decided, will restore normalcy. He’ll rebuild the Republican Party. He’ll hold off the “leftist hordes” in 2028. He’s the adult in the room. The steady hand. The professional operator who speaks in complete sentences and wears proper suits and understands how government actually works.
CBS News thinks so. The Free Press thinks so. The “Reagan Caucus” thinks so. Bari Weiss, having just shelved a fully vetted 60 Minutes deportation investigation because the White House refused to comment, is now positioning Rubio as the reasonable alternative to Trump’s chaos.
They’re already running the 2028 campaign. “Yes, Trump was bad. But look—we have Marco Rubio! The Cuba policy expert. The China hawk. The foreign policy professional. He can restore American credibility!”
There’s only one small problem that we should spend a minute examining together.
Marco Rubio is not the adult in the room. He’s been studiously implementing Trump’s agenda. As Secretary of State. And National Security Adviser. Both positions. Simultaneously. Coordinating foreign policy and national security as one integrated instrument.
The Venezuela operation? That’s Rubio’s operation.
He’s not a bystander watching Trump make reckless decisions. He’s the architect. When Trump announced from Mar-a-Lago that “the people standing right behind me, we’re going to be running it”—he was pointing at Rubio. When the question came up about legal basis for seizing another nation’s government and extracting its oil, Rubio provided the answer: “Venezuela unilaterally seized American assets. Now we’re taking them back.”
Rubio is the international spokesman and representative of a lawless gangster state in DC.
Spain—which actively opposes Maduro, which harbors Venezuelan opposition leaders—refuses to recognize the operation. Not because Spain loves Maduro. Because even governments that would benefit from regime change can see this is naked imperial aggression with no legal basis whatsoever.
But CBS News salutes Rubio. The ultimate Florida man. Leader on the world stage.
The oil extortion? That’s Rubio’s extortion.
When George Stephanopoulos pushed him on what happens next in Venezuela, Rubio couldn’t explain the legal basis, couldn’t explain the endgame, could only say they’re “making them a deal” before Venezuela “runs out of oil.”
Read that again. We killed 80+ people. We kidnapped their president. We failed to achieve regime change—Maduro’s government still controls the country. Armed militias are hunting Trump supporters in the streets. And Rubio’s response is: they need to make a deal before the oil runs out.
We’re watching the Sopranos with aircraft carriers, and the consequences in the coming months and years for global security, the global economy and America’s reputation on the world stage will be severe.
But the anti-anti-Trump right sees this and thinks: finally, the adults are back in charge. Professional-sounding language. Proper suit. Complete sentences. Surely this is better than Trump’s vulgarity.
The immunity gap enabling ICE to shoot citizens? That’s Rubio’s administration.
A woman is dead in Minneapolis. Shot by ICE. A U.S. citizen. The post-9/11 immunity gap—the statutory artifact when DHS was created that left ICE/CBP agents without the Bivens remedy that FBI agents have—means there’s no cause of action. No accountability mechanism. The agent operates outside Fourth Amendment protections.
Marco Rubio is part of the Cabinet that refuses to close that gap. He sits in national security meetings where deportation policy is coordinated. He knows what’s happening. He’s not stopping it. He’s implementing it.
That Americans are so exhausted by Trump’s chaos that they’ll accept anyone who sounds professional—even if that person implemented the exact same policies with a smoother delivery.
That 2028 will be “normalcy restored” rather than “accountability demanded.”
That Rubio can run on “I was the reasonable one trying to manage Trump” rather than “I was Secretary of State and National Security Adviser who coordinated unconstitutional war, oil extortion, and domestic enforcement operations.”
That voters will forget Rubio stood at Mar-a-Lago while Trump announced imperial conquest, then went on television to explain why Venezuela needed to “make a deal.”
That somehow participating in framework destruction while speaking in complete sentences is morally distinct from participating in framework destruction while speaking in Trump’s vulgar style.
Replace the crude billionaire with the smooth operator. Keep the same framework destruction—unconstitutional war powers, treaty violations, immunity gaps, cross-sectoral coordination of money/law/narrative/enforcement—but package it professionally.
The anti-anti-Trump right isn’t horrified by what Trump is doing. They’re horrified by how he’s doing it. The vulgarity. The Mar-a-Lago announcements. The explicit gangsterism. They’d prefer the same policies delivered with State Department language and proper diplomatic protocols.
That’s what Rubio offers: a continuation of oligarchic corruption with a professional presentation.
And CBS News, The Free Press, and the remnants of establishment conservatism are betting Americans will accept it. That we’re asking for better managers of the oligarchy rather than rejection of oligarchic capture itself.
YouGov poll this week: 80% of Americans think the rich have too much power. 78% of Democrats support a wealth tax. These aren’t marginal positions. This is overwhelming consensus that concentrated power—regardless of how professionally it presents itself—is the problem.
Americans aren’t asking for Marco Rubio to manage the empire more smoothly. They’re rejecting the premise that America should operate as an empire at all. They’re not looking for adults who can conduct unconstitutional war with proper diplomatic language. They’re demanding that war powers return to Congress where the Constitution placed them.
The anti-anti-Trump right thinks 2028 is a choice between “Trump chaos” and “Rubio normalcy.”
Actually it’s between “framework destruction” and “framework restoration.” Between “everyone who enabled this faces accountability” and “the same people rebrand themselves as reasonable.”
Rubio doesn’t get an escape hatch. Neither does anyone else who carried water for this. Not the Cabinet members who coordinated policy. Not the Congressmen who refused to assert Article I war powers. Not the journalists who normalized it by positioning collaborators as “adults in the room.”
When you serve as Secretary of State and National Security Adviser during unconstitutional military operations, you don’t get to run in 2028 on “restoring American credibility.” You’re the one who destroyed it.
When you coordinate policy that kills 80+ people in failed regime change, then demand oil concessions from the government you failed to topple, you don’t get to claim you were “managing” Trump. You were implementing gangster foreign policy.
None of it changes what Rubio actually is: the professional face on systematic constitutional destruction. The smooth operator who makes oligarchic capture sound like responsible governance. The collaborator who thinks speaking in complete sentences absolves him of coordinating war crimes.
Steve Schmidt put it perfectly this morning: “Marco Rubio has become the mouthpiece for a gangster. He has become an architect of international aggression that makes a mockery of international law of which the United States has been the foundation.”
Rubio stood at State Department podiums and explained why Venezuela needs to “make a deal before they run out of oil.” He coordinated policy that left Maduro in power while killing civilians and creating chaos. He serves in an administration that shoots citizens while claiming to restore law and order.
The anti-anti-Trump right looks at this and sees salvation.
Because they’re not looking for someone to restore the constitutional framework. They’re looking for someone to preserve their position within the oligarchic one. They don’t want accountability for framework destruction. They want absolution through professional presentation.
Rubio offers exactly that: “Yes, things got messy under Trump. But I was there trying to make it work. Now let me restore normalcy.”
Americans see through it.
Not because they’re sophisticated constitutional scholars. Because they can tell the difference between “managing” chaos and coordinating it. Between being dragged along by Trump’s decisions and actively implementing them as Secretary of State and National Security Adviser.
When your neighbor gets shot by ICE, you don’t care that the Secretary of State speaks proper Spanish and knows the difference between Castro and Chávez. You care that the administration he serves is shooting citizens and claiming legal immunity.
When 80 people die in a failed regime change, you don’t applaud the diplomat who explains it professionally. You demand to know why Congress never authorized the war in the first place.
When the President violates the UN Charter—which the United States authored and which has the force of law under Article VI—you don’t celebrate the Cabinet member who helped coordinate it. You demand impeachment for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
But the anti-anti-Trump right isn’t interested in those questions.
Because answering them would require examining their own complicity. The votes they cast to confirm Rubio. The accommodation they made to Trump’s agenda as long as it was delivered professionally. The years they spent criticizing Trump’s “tone” while enabling his destruction of constitutional constraints.
Betting on Rubio for 2028 lets them avoid all of that. They can position themselves as the reasonable alternative to Trump without acknowledging they enabled everything Trump did. They can claim the adults are back in charge without admitting the adults coordinated the chaos.
It won’t work.
And when CBS News responds by running puff pieces about Marco Rubio being the “ultimate Florida man” and “leader on the world stage,” they understand exactly what’s happening: the establishment is closing ranks to protect its own.
The 2028 campaign the anti-anti-Trump right is already running isn’t about restoring the republic.
It’s about preserving oligarchic succession. Making sure that when Trump crashes out—and he will—the same class that enabled him gets to manage the aftermath. That framework destruction continues, just with professional delivery and proper protocols.
Marco Rubio isn’t the adult in the room. He’s the professionally-dressed collaborator who thinks Americans won’t notice he coordinated the crimes as long as he explains them in complete sentences.
The anti-anti-Trump right betting on him for salvation reveals everything about what they think politics is: aesthetics over substance, presentation over principle, professional delivery over constitutional constraint.
They’re wrong.
Americans aren’t asking for better managers of framework destruction. They’re demanding framework restoration. They’re not looking for collaborators who speak properly. They’re coming for everyone who carried water—regardless of how smoothly they delivered it.
Rubio will not save the GOP. He won’t hold off the leftist hordes. He won’t restore American credibility or rebuild the party or offer normalcy.
He’ll face the same accountability as everyone else who enabled this: Trump, the Cabinet, the Congressional Republicans who refused to assert war powers, and the journalists who normalized it by positioning architects of chaos as adults in the room.
CBS News can salute him all it wants.
The rest of us see exactly what he is.
I have been screaming since his confirmation that Rubio is indeed the architect. He was writing op-eds for El Salvador (official government website) and the Miami Herald about Alien Enemies, CECOT and becoming allies with El Salvador months before Trump and Miller were talking about it. He is absolutely the brains behind Venezuela. He is absolutely the architect of annexing Greenland. He was behind the Panama Canal nonsense last year.
And he’s been a blatant Christian Nationalist for the past decade.
We can not let anyone consider him the adult in the room or less dangerous than anyone else in this regime.
RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES AND THIS WILL ALL GO AWAY.