Marco Rubio’s stock has been rising recently, and it’s pretty clear the secretary of state is a leading 2028 presidential candidate. That may sound like good news for Never Trump conservatives like me. But actually, it poses something of an existential headache.
I voted for Rubio in the 2016 Republican primary. And I seem to recall having written one of those embarrassingly premature “Marco Rubio for president” columns, circa 2010, for the now-defunct Politics Daily.
I’ve also been an ardent critic of Donald Trump from day one. So the possibility that this sad detour in American politics could end with a President Rubio offers, at least on the surface, a tiny bit of hope. (Seriously, we live in a world where a Candace Owens nomination is not an absurd possibility.)