Okay. Beattie is writing for Rubio, a neocon, a Republican, married to a cocaine cartel family. Rubio doesn't have a mind to match the dark matter of meaing in the Munich speech written for him. But I thought of Nick Fuentes, who does have sharpness of mind (which doesn't equate with goodness or being right). Fuentes is condemned by everybody except his fans and a few influential people. Is Rubio jumping on a movement that already exists? Rubio is no leader; he's a follower. Who is he channeling with this concept of hegemony steered by US might makes right????
Since I read your post, Mark, I went down a rabbit hole snd read a bit about Friedrich Nietzsche. Having read and written comments about DJT's wielding of power and his questionable mental state, and seeing how he tosses rules of order and laws aside...this quote from Nietzsche fits:
"All superior men who were irresistibly drawn to throw off the yoke of any kind of morality and to frame new laws had, if they were not actually mad, no alternative but to make themselves or pretend to be mad.".....from F.Nietzsche's 1881 book "Daybreak"
And, with Rubio's speech also in mind: Nietzsche said that the "feeling of power" has a role as a motivator in a man's life. Such a man's moral and cultural relativism guides his thoughts and actions. There is no room for Christianity......from Wikipedia, and from a discussion today with my grandson--a current college student of philosophy
This is Zionism extrapolated; the same as Nazism; the same as global elites eating children, killing entire populations intentionally (Palestinian, Syrian, Covid pandemic): "...moral and cultural relativism guides his thoughts and actions"
Yes, Joanne~the man's relativism puts him in charge of what is moral or not--what is allowed or okay to do and say, and what is not. He is the judge...right and wrong is subjective according to his own mindset. Tyrannical kings and dictators think and act this way.
Yes, a Doozy, I am with you in understanding this. And didn't Lavrov say to the world during one of his interviews from the preceding days, that Trump is attempting domination of everything, he is like "king of the world"...I hope my attribution to Lavrov is correct---someone said that phrase. It's obvious to the American electorate that Trump thinks himself to be so, already; and he dreams to be publicly adored as such. This is very difficult to stomach on the day before Ash Wednesday.
Beattie is also the founder of Revolver News, where I and (I’m guessing) others here get at least some of our news. And, Heidegger’s present-day admirers, according to wikipedia, include Steve Bannon and Alexandr Dugin.
Yeah, I've got that lined up. Listening to Rick Sanchez right now.
Why I think the philosophical perspective I presented is important is that it reveals the demonism/satanism that Lavrov describes as being now inherent in the West.
It's a hard hitting article. One thing he should have pointed out is the way the AVF enables the corruption of Congress by the war lobbies, whereas the draft brought out popular opposition.
Well, no surprise then that, according to Trump's ex, he used to keep a copy of Hitler's Greatest Speeches by his bed.(Wonder what Beattie thinks of that somewhat- less-than-Aryan Marco Rubio.) When it comes to Christians Nietzsche excoriates them in his book The Antichrist*, where he notes that as the son of a clergyman, he had studied the scriptures chapter and verse and came away wondering if Christ was the only Christian. The history of "Christians" slaughtering one another with great relish over the centuries certainly makes his point, and it applies in spades to that greatBible-thumper Donald Trump (who only thumps his for the camera.)
*Well worth the read, and even more so for H.L. Mencken's outrageous introduction, nearly as long as the book, which he translated from the German, in the 1925 Knopf edition. At one point he writes, "The Jews deserved 100 times as many pogroms as they endured, but compared to the Christians..."(one of many such slurs- all the more surprising that Knopf, who was Jewish himself, even published it(then again, maybe it was up to his wife, who was in charge of the (outstanding) Borzoi Books series of which The Antichrist was one edition.)
Great find, I didn't know a great deal of Heidegger, just the basics, so I went to Gemini, Googles latest version which is supposed to be the most advanced yet, to learn. I decided to make a post of that conversation, so if you want to know about Heidegger in a really interesting and deep way from a deeply knowledgeable perspective in a conversation style, here it is. It's called
Heidegger, Plato, Mysticism, and Marco Rubio
The Munich Security Conference speech by Marco Rubio surprisingly has led us into a world of mystic profundity--that's gotta be a first!
Hi Pam, thanks for offering your interesting commentary to the many who read and comment here at MiH. Based on your recent comments I thought you might find this substack to your liking. This was a tour de-force: https://www.alilybit.com/p/you-mean-nothing.
For me it is very simple. Thought must create fear because thought cannot ever find security in the future. Thought has security in time. Tomorrow has no time. Right? Tomorrow exists in the mind as time but tomorrow may not exist at all psychologically. And because of that uncertainty thought projects what it wants for tomorrow: safety, what I have acquired, what I have achieved, what I possess, all that. And that is too, is completely uncertain. So can I, can thought be quiet about the future? That's all my point. Can thought be quiet, which is function where it is necessary to protect physically - you follow? - and therefore no nationalities, no division, no separate gods, no warmonger. And can thought be quiet so that time as tomorrow doesn't exist? Yes sirs. Therefore I have to understand what it is to live now. Right? I don't understand what it is to live now, nor have I understood what it is to live in the past, and I want to live in the future which I don't know, which I don't know what the present is. So I am asking can I live completely wholly today? I can only do that when I have understood the whole machinery and the functioning of thought, and in the very understanding of the reality of thought there is silence. And where the mind is quiet there is no future, no time.
Reza Pahlavi declared the Persian people to be "Aryan." That may be one of the reasons behind the zionist obsession to climb into the DeLorean and do a reverse-Heidegger: go Back to the Future. Zionist Jews in Israel are mostly from Eastern Europe, not Central European or Britain, where Jews were comfortably assimilated and disdained changing that status. Even the American Jews among today's Settlers are of Eastern Europe origin.
Haggai Ram has published several essays and a book on the zionist "Iranophobia". Ram, who teaches in an Israeli university, argues that Iranian Jews are a puzzlement to Israeli zionists because Iranian Jews are content to be who they are, whereas the entire zionist project is to create of Eastern European Jews "redeemed", German-adjacent Western Jews, completely distinct from Arab-ness -- which is, uncomfortable as it may be, the ancient origin of the Chosen of Abraham.
To Banish the "Levantine Dunghill" from within: Toward a Cultural Understanding of
For their part, American Jews in the East Coast-based Tikvah organization have accumulated a massive war chest to fund a campaign to demonstrate that Hebrews and Hebrew culture set the foundation of Western civilization and of the USA..
With all respect for Mark's study of philosophy which provided the ability to understand the references, then sources, of Rubio's speech, I look at the meta-narrative: Rubio is not comfortable in his own skin nor in his own understanding of himself or the world he inhabits: he mouths words that others concoct for him. That is its own tragedy -- for Rubio and for the cultural state of the nation.
Wow. Thanks for the research, Mark. I am quite stunned by Rubio's speech and had wondered who could come up with such a dangerous "mishmash of misconceptions" (as you put it) - and a contradictory and offensive and historically inaccurate mishmash at that.
So Beattie was fired in 2018 for racist remarks and views and yet hired back into the State Department. I wonder who hired him? No matter I guess as Rubio no doubt had to approve and has just endorsed his ideas.
Now it appears Beattie has in one speech announced to the world a U.S. policy of neocolonialism and intended world domination. The damage this could do is incalculable. I'm sure the Chinese will really appreciate Beattie's view that "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work."
As for Heidegger, I always thought he was a nutcase and not a legitimate philosopher either. He basically had to invent his own set of terms to present concepts that no one else could understand or make sense of... at least that is my recollection from study of him in college many decades ago.
Thanks very much for bringing the very disturbing Rubio speech to our attention.
"I'm sure the Chinese will really appreciate Beattie's view that "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work." On top of which they must be really smarting when Trump literally invoked the "Donroe Doctrine" and then proceeded to bar them from taking delivery of Venezuelan oil they had paid for. Next shoe to drop: Xi Jinping invoking the "Mao-roe Doctrine" and imposing a blockade of Taiwan.
May be the most important question. “I wonder who hired him?“
I’m so cynical of Trumps hiring after the hiring disasters, saboteurs, and betrayers in his first administration , I wonder if he was deliberately hired as a useful idiot ideological suicide bomber.
Rubio is exactly what he's been since day 1, immersed in GOP "elegant papers". Voters rejected him and his elegant papers in 2016 but in 2026 he's on top:
3/15/2016, "Rubio’s demise marks the last gasp of the Republican reboot," Washington Post, Robert Costa, Philip Rucker, West Miami, Fla.
"Rubio, whose ascent was propelled by a network of powerful players for years, was supposed to be the candidate best positioned to stop Trump and prevent a Republican rupture....
.......... .
"Those very elegant papers it published and conferences it held may have been good and smart, but they didn’t really matter,” said William J. Bennett, a conservative talk-show host and former education secretary in Ronald Reagan’s administration. “Instead, everyone who’s been prominent for the last 15 to 20 years finds themselves getting pushed out.”...
.......
Years of carefully laid plans to repackage the Republican Party’s traditional ideas for a fast-changing country came crashing down here on Tuesday when Sen. Marco Rubio suspended his campaign for the presidency after a crippling defeat in his home-state primary.
......
Since Mitt Romney’s devastating loss in the 2012 presidential election, the Republican National Committee and leading voices at think tanks, editorial boards and Capitol Hill symposiums have charted a path back to the White House based on inclusive rhetoric and a focus on middle-class issues.
.........
Nobody embodied that vision better than Rubio, a charismatic standard-bearer for conservative orthodoxy who readily embraced the proposals of the right’s elite thinkers. The senator from Florida spoke urgently and eloquently about raising stagnant wages and eradicating poverty. He had an immigrant’s tale to match the rhetoric. And on foreign affairs, he was a passionate defender of the GOP’s hawkish tilt.
...........
But Rubio’s once-promising candidacy, as well as the conservative reform movement’s playbook, was spectacularly undone by Donald Trump and his defiant politics of economic and ethnic grievance. The drift toward visceral populism became an all-consuming rush, leaving Rubio and others unable to adjust.
...........
Rubio’s fall comes weeks after others who advocated for conservative reforms, such as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, dropped out of the race, and as the donors and institutions who have long supported hawkish fiscal and foreign policies find themselves scrambling to hold onto the consensus that has shaped the GOP for decades.
For many of them, Trump represents a threat to the traditional order of the party and its platform. He does not support overhauling Social Security — a key plank for Romney and GOP congressional leaders — and he was a vocal critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq in its aftermath, setting him apart from much of the party’s high command....
............
Following Romney’s defeat in an election many Republicans thought they should have won, party leaders concluded the only way to regain the presidency would be to engage the growing and diverse electorate that President Obama had won over twice. The RNC drafted an “autopsy” that recommended bolstering appeals to women and minority voters, while reform conservatives drafted their own manifesto.
Rubio had been building his base among these Republicans since January 2011, when he began his Senate term. He joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and began to speak at think tanks and meet with scholars, most of them former staffers from George W. Bush’s administration. He hired a number of them for his own staff.
During his breaks in the Senate, Rubio would often tell colleagues how he was reading papers sent to him from former Republican officials or how he was about to have lunch with another bold-faced name from the Bush years. On his computer, he kept a “drop box” of related policy files compiled by his advisers....
Rubio followed a similar path with foreign-policy hawks as they began to look for a favorite ahead of the 2016 contest: a flurry of meetings and op-ed articles and, most critically, solidarity on the issues as they bubbled up.
Although Rubio entered 2015 hobbled with parts of the GOP base because of immigration, he carried goodwill among those two constituencies that were driving the Republican establishment: the reformers and and the hawks.
“The critique was there: The Republican Party was out of touch,” said Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and former George W. Bush speechwriter. “But the breakdown occurred because we got into a cycle where policy didn't matter at all. Policy was not just secondary, but it was almost not even in the conversation. And when people tried to interject policy — whether it was Rubio or Bush or others — there was just no appetite for it. It didn’t catch on.”
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich said that Rubio campaigned in a way that quickly became obsolete.
“Rubio was prepared, much like Jeb Bush, for a reasonable dialogue in Washington policy language, offering positions that
reflect 40 years of national security and foreign-policy experts. All of that disappeared. The market didn't care,” Gingrich said.
I think he hired Washington Free Bacon to do oppo research for candidates. WFB was run by Matthew Continetti who is son-in-law of the odious bill Kristol and they retained Fusion GPS. That started the finger pointing about who hired Steele, but in the end it all led to Shrillery.
I'd even have no problem believing Rubio dove into the ocean and clipped the Nordstream pipeline. It's likely many people were involved in the pathetic Steele dossier.
All this today… reminds me of seventy and eighties soap opera’s. These politicians can change character fast. One day they are good guys, next day they are the bad guys. They reinvent themselves, only to reinvent themselves again. They switch teams within teams.
The politicians are running a giant reality show. A soap opera.
The fact that Trump placed Never Trumper Marco Rubio in that position says it all.
Trump is a liar, was a liar, and will always be a liar.
Beginning with Tea Party in 2009 thousands of Americans gave time and money they often didn't have to save this country at the 11th hour. In Nov. 2010 the Tea Party gave the GOP House a landslide +63 victory--but the GOP House didn't want the new people. They wanted to remain the minority. Andrew Breitbart worked himself to death for us. The result is always the same. Either by co-opting or "just waiting" US taxpayers remain enslaved to the global genocide industry. To free US taxpayers US must be broken up.
Start with a French-farmers-on-tractors style assault on US Congress: the farmers dumped loads of manure on the streets blocking their law makers's access.
OTOH, does not seem to have brought about change.
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I would suggest that those on 'our' side stop bewailing the "pressure" Trump is under, vis a vis Bibi and Iran.
Every person alive is "under pressure" to make decisions between the good and the evil.
I have never read Heidegger, but I listen to a lot of pop culture novels while I do other work. Just finished a trilogy by Louise Penny, around the adage of the Wolf Within: the wolf is grey, or it is black; and they fight inside each person (bonus that the first two stories involved cloistered monks whose apostolate was to chant the Divine Office in choir).
Which one wins?
The wolf that you feed is the one that wins.
It is, perhaps, our misfortune as a society that Trump has spent so much of his life calculating which Wolf will provide the greater RoI rather than what, to my way of thinking, is a clear-cut moral and even political decision.
Great point, it must begin in phases--which is how we got where we are now. Someone was very patient, knew if they got control of schools the country could be destroyed in a generation.
I was a member of the Tea Party Movement. Ron Paul Supporter and the RNC did to Ron Paul what the DNC turned around and did to Bernie Sanders. I was in Nashville when Sara Palin show up. I knew right then we had been co-opted.
Okay. Beattie is writing for Rubio, a neocon, a Republican, married to a cocaine cartel family. Rubio doesn't have a mind to match the dark matter of meaing in the Munich speech written for him. But I thought of Nick Fuentes, who does have sharpness of mind (which doesn't equate with goodness or being right). Fuentes is condemned by everybody except his fans and a few influential people. Is Rubio jumping on a movement that already exists? Rubio is no leader; he's a follower. Who is he channeling with this concept of hegemony steered by US might makes right????
His major Zionist donors.
Since I read your post, Mark, I went down a rabbit hole snd read a bit about Friedrich Nietzsche. Having read and written comments about DJT's wielding of power and his questionable mental state, and seeing how he tosses rules of order and laws aside...this quote from Nietzsche fits:
"All superior men who were irresistibly drawn to throw off the yoke of any kind of morality and to frame new laws had, if they were not actually mad, no alternative but to make themselves or pretend to be mad.".....from F.Nietzsche's 1881 book "Daybreak"
And, with Rubio's speech also in mind: Nietzsche said that the "feeling of power" has a role as a motivator in a man's life. Such a man's moral and cultural relativism guides his thoughts and actions. There is no room for Christianity......from Wikipedia, and from a discussion today with my grandson--a current college student of philosophy
This is Zionism extrapolated; the same as Nazism; the same as global elites eating children, killing entire populations intentionally (Palestinian, Syrian, Covid pandemic): "...moral and cultural relativism guides his thoughts and actions"
Yes, Joanne~the man's relativism puts him in charge of what is moral or not--what is allowed or okay to do and say, and what is not. He is the judge...right and wrong is subjective according to his own mindset. Tyrannical kings and dictators think and act this way.
Yes, a Doozy, I am with you in understanding this. And didn't Lavrov say to the world during one of his interviews from the preceding days, that Trump is attempting domination of everything, he is like "king of the world"...I hope my attribution to Lavrov is correct---someone said that phrase. It's obvious to the American electorate that Trump thinks himself to be so, already; and he dreams to be publicly adored as such. This is very difficult to stomach on the day before Ash Wednesday.
Beattie is also the founder of Revolver News, where I and (I’m guessing) others here get at least some of our news. And, Heidegger’s present-day admirers, according to wikipedia, include Steve Bannon and Alexandr Dugin.
some of these Heidegger quotes sound like they could have come from Kamala Harris.
I had the same reaction. Maybe someone gave her a book of Heidegger to make her sound smart on the campaign trail?
Interesting commentary in Glenn Diesen's interview with Einar Tangen:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/einar-tangen-us-declares-war-on-multipolarity
Yeah, I've got that lined up. Listening to Rick Sanchez right now.
Why I think the philosophical perspective I presented is important is that it reveals the demonism/satanism that Lavrov describes as being now inherent in the West.
Getting back to Iran, excellent article by Ret. Gen. Dennis Laich:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-military-ready-for-war/
It's a hard hitting article. One thing he should have pointed out is the way the AVF enables the corruption of Congress by the war lobbies, whereas the draft brought out popular opposition.
Re: Rubio...he was the source of funding for the Steele Dossier. Whoa!
https://x.com/DiligentDenizen/status/2017717750064431611
I noticed since Trump was elected that website sucks. Articles barely get written and the pro trump bias is off the charts.
They're Trump supporters 🤦♀️
Wow, researching the speech writer is next level journalism.
From ZeroHedge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lavrov-soberly-acknowledged-challenges-posed-trump-20
From ZeroHedge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-gaming-out-sustained-weeks-long-military-campaign-against-iran-which-could
Well, no surprise then that, according to Trump's ex, he used to keep a copy of Hitler's Greatest Speeches by his bed.(Wonder what Beattie thinks of that somewhat- less-than-Aryan Marco Rubio.) When it comes to Christians Nietzsche excoriates them in his book The Antichrist*, where he notes that as the son of a clergyman, he had studied the scriptures chapter and verse and came away wondering if Christ was the only Christian. The history of "Christians" slaughtering one another with great relish over the centuries certainly makes his point, and it applies in spades to that greatBible-thumper Donald Trump (who only thumps his for the camera.)
*Well worth the read, and even more so for H.L. Mencken's outrageous introduction, nearly as long as the book, which he translated from the German, in the 1925 Knopf edition. At one point he writes, "The Jews deserved 100 times as many pogroms as they endured, but compared to the Christians..."(one of many such slurs- all the more surprising that Knopf, who was Jewish himself, even published it(then again, maybe it was up to his wife, who was in charge of the (outstanding) Borzoi Books series of which The Antichrist was one edition.)
Great find, I didn't know a great deal of Heidegger, just the basics, so I went to Gemini, Googles latest version which is supposed to be the most advanced yet, to learn. I decided to make a post of that conversation, so if you want to know about Heidegger in a really interesting and deep way from a deeply knowledgeable perspective in a conversation style, here it is. It's called
Heidegger, Plato, Mysticism, and Marco Rubio
The Munich Security Conference speech by Marco Rubio surprisingly has led us into a world of mystic profundity--that's gotta be a first!
https://pamho458733.substack.com/p/heidegger-plato-mysticism-and-marco
Hi Pam, thanks for offering your interesting commentary to the many who read and comment here at MiH. Based on your recent comments I thought you might find this substack to your liking. This was a tour de-force: https://www.alilybit.com/p/you-mean-nothing.
Thanks. Great reporting.
Thank you, Cosmo! I have bookmarked it to complete reading, and as a reference.
For me it is very simple. Thought must create fear because thought cannot ever find security in the future. Thought has security in time. Tomorrow has no time. Right? Tomorrow exists in the mind as time but tomorrow may not exist at all psychologically. And because of that uncertainty thought projects what it wants for tomorrow: safety, what I have acquired, what I have achieved, what I possess, all that. And that is too, is completely uncertain. So can I, can thought be quiet about the future? That's all my point. Can thought be quiet, which is function where it is necessary to protect physically - you follow? - and therefore no nationalities, no division, no separate gods, no warmonger. And can thought be quiet so that time as tomorrow doesn't exist? Yes sirs. Therefore I have to understand what it is to live now. Right? I don't understand what it is to live now, nor have I understood what it is to live in the past, and I want to live in the future which I don't know, which I don't know what the present is. So I am asking can I live completely wholly today? I can only do that when I have understood the whole machinery and the functioning of thought, and in the very understanding of the reality of thought there is silence. And where the mind is quiet there is no future, no time.
I.Krishnamurti
Yes this is broadly in line with most South Asian tradition. Much of that was rearticulated by the Greek philosophers.
Way clearer than the stuff Mark quoted.
"Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. "
No racism here, oh no. Does fit right in with the "White Man's Burden" air about the speech.
"Black people, Hispanic people! Vote for the GOP..." Yeah right.
Reza Pahlavi declared the Persian people to be "Aryan." That may be one of the reasons behind the zionist obsession to climb into the DeLorean and do a reverse-Heidegger: go Back to the Future. Zionist Jews in Israel are mostly from Eastern Europe, not Central European or Britain, where Jews were comfortably assimilated and disdained changing that status. Even the American Jews among today's Settlers are of Eastern Europe origin.
Haggai Ram has published several essays and a book on the zionist "Iranophobia". Ram, who teaches in an Israeli university, argues that Iranian Jews are a puzzlement to Israeli zionists because Iranian Jews are content to be who they are, whereas the entire zionist project is to create of Eastern European Jews "redeemed", German-adjacent Western Jews, completely distinct from Arab-ness -- which is, uncomfortable as it may be, the ancient origin of the Chosen of Abraham.
To Banish the "Levantine Dunghill" from within: Toward a Cultural Understanding of
Israeli Anti-Iran Phobias - Haggai Ram
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30069612?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents
For their part, American Jews in the East Coast-based Tikvah organization have accumulated a massive war chest to fund a campaign to demonstrate that Hebrews and Hebrew culture set the foundation of Western civilization and of the USA..
Ubermenschen is their message.
With all respect for Mark's study of philosophy which provided the ability to understand the references, then sources, of Rubio's speech, I look at the meta-narrative: Rubio is not comfortable in his own skin nor in his own understanding of himself or the world he inhabits: he mouths words that others concoct for him. That is its own tragedy -- for Rubio and for the cultural state of the nation.
Wow. Thanks for the research, Mark. I am quite stunned by Rubio's speech and had wondered who could come up with such a dangerous "mishmash of misconceptions" (as you put it) - and a contradictory and offensive and historically inaccurate mishmash at that.
So Beattie was fired in 2018 for racist remarks and views and yet hired back into the State Department. I wonder who hired him? No matter I guess as Rubio no doubt had to approve and has just endorsed his ideas.
Now it appears Beattie has in one speech announced to the world a U.S. policy of neocolonialism and intended world domination. The damage this could do is incalculable. I'm sure the Chinese will really appreciate Beattie's view that "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work."
As for Heidegger, I always thought he was a nutcase and not a legitimate philosopher either. He basically had to invent his own set of terms to present concepts that no one else could understand or make sense of... at least that is my recollection from study of him in college many decades ago.
Thanks very much for bringing the very disturbing Rubio speech to our attention.
"I'm sure the Chinese will really appreciate Beattie's view that "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work." On top of which they must be really smarting when Trump literally invoked the "Donroe Doctrine" and then proceeded to bar them from taking delivery of Venezuelan oil they had paid for. Next shoe to drop: Xi Jinping invoking the "Mao-roe Doctrine" and imposing a blockade of Taiwan.
May be the most important question. “I wonder who hired him?“
I’m so cynical of Trumps hiring after the hiring disasters, saboteurs, and betrayers in his first administration , I wonder if he was deliberately hired as a useful idiot ideological suicide bomber.
They weren't hiring "disasters" to Trump and Jared. The disaster is that 2016 voters thought Trump cared about them.
Rubio is exactly what he's been since day 1, immersed in GOP "elegant papers". Voters rejected him and his elegant papers in 2016 but in 2026 he's on top:
3/15/2016, "Rubio’s demise marks the last gasp of the Republican reboot," Washington Post, Robert Costa, Philip Rucker, West Miami, Fla.
"Rubio, whose ascent was propelled by a network of powerful players for years, was supposed to be the candidate best positioned to stop Trump and prevent a Republican rupture....
.......... .
"Those very elegant papers it published and conferences it held may have been good and smart, but they didn’t really matter,” said William J. Bennett, a conservative talk-show host and former education secretary in Ronald Reagan’s administration. “Instead, everyone who’s been prominent for the last 15 to 20 years finds themselves getting pushed out.”...
.......
Years of carefully laid plans to repackage the Republican Party’s traditional ideas for a fast-changing country came crashing down here on Tuesday when Sen. Marco Rubio suspended his campaign for the presidency after a crippling defeat in his home-state primary.
......
Since Mitt Romney’s devastating loss in the 2012 presidential election, the Republican National Committee and leading voices at think tanks, editorial boards and Capitol Hill symposiums have charted a path back to the White House based on inclusive rhetoric and a focus on middle-class issues.
.........
Nobody embodied that vision better than Rubio, a charismatic standard-bearer for conservative orthodoxy who readily embraced the proposals of the right’s elite thinkers. The senator from Florida spoke urgently and eloquently about raising stagnant wages and eradicating poverty. He had an immigrant’s tale to match the rhetoric. And on foreign affairs, he was a passionate defender of the GOP’s hawkish tilt.
...........
But Rubio’s once-promising candidacy, as well as the conservative reform movement’s playbook, was spectacularly undone by Donald Trump and his defiant politics of economic and ethnic grievance. The drift toward visceral populism became an all-consuming rush, leaving Rubio and others unable to adjust.
...........
Rubio’s fall comes weeks after others who advocated for conservative reforms, such as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, dropped out of the race, and as the donors and institutions who have long supported hawkish fiscal and foreign policies find themselves scrambling to hold onto the consensus that has shaped the GOP for decades.
For many of them, Trump represents a threat to the traditional order of the party and its platform. He does not support overhauling Social Security — a key plank for Romney and GOP congressional leaders — and he was a vocal critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq in its aftermath, setting him apart from much of the party’s high command....
............
Following Romney’s defeat in an election many Republicans thought they should have won, party leaders concluded the only way to regain the presidency would be to engage the growing and diverse electorate that President Obama had won over twice. The RNC drafted an “autopsy” that recommended bolstering appeals to women and minority voters, while reform conservatives drafted their own manifesto.
Rubio had been building his base among these Republicans since January 2011, when he began his Senate term. He joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and began to speak at think tanks and meet with scholars, most of them former staffers from George W. Bush’s administration. He hired a number of them for his own staff.
During his breaks in the Senate, Rubio would often tell colleagues how he was reading papers sent to him from former Republican officials or how he was about to have lunch with another bold-faced name from the Bush years. On his computer, he kept a “drop box” of related policy files compiled by his advisers....
Rubio followed a similar path with foreign-policy hawks as they began to look for a favorite ahead of the 2016 contest: a flurry of meetings and op-ed articles and, most critically, solidarity on the issues as they bubbled up.
Although Rubio entered 2015 hobbled with parts of the GOP base because of immigration, he carried goodwill among those two constituencies that were driving the Republican establishment: the reformers and and the hawks.
“The critique was there: The Republican Party was out of touch,” said Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and former George W. Bush speechwriter. “But the breakdown occurred because we got into a cycle where policy didn't matter at all. Policy was not just secondary, but it was almost not even in the conversation. And when people tried to interject policy — whether it was Rubio or Bush or others — there was just no appetite for it. It didn’t catch on.”
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich said that Rubio campaigned in a way that quickly became obsolete.
“Rubio was prepared, much like Jeb Bush, for a reasonable dialogue in Washington policy language, offering positions that
reflect 40 years of national security and foreign-policy experts. All of that disappeared. The market didn't care,” Gingrich said.
Rubio’s hawkish foreign policy footing, thought to be an asset, was challenged. Trump’s claims of being “militaristic” even though he was inclined against intervention muddled how voters perceived the candidates, disassociating American power with the hawkish ideology of Rubio and the Bush orbit. Trump’s denunciations of George W. Bush’s decision to go into Iraq did not make the hawkish cause any easier."...https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rubios-demise-marks-the-last-gasp-of-the-republican-reboot/2016/03/15/e0a6413c-ea3d-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html
See my post at the top about Rubio being the one who funded the Steele Dossier.
I think he hired Washington Free Bacon to do oppo research for candidates. WFB was run by Matthew Continetti who is son-in-law of the odious bill Kristol and they retained Fusion GPS. That started the finger pointing about who hired Steele, but in the end it all led to Shrillery.
I'd even have no problem believing Rubio dove into the ocean and clipped the Nordstream pipeline. It's likely many people were involved in the pathetic Steele dossier.
Hillary via Marc Elias funded the Steele Dossier. John McCain distributed it.
All this today… reminds me of seventy and eighties soap opera’s. These politicians can change character fast. One day they are good guys, next day they are the bad guys. They reinvent themselves, only to reinvent themselves again. They switch teams within teams.
The politicians are running a giant reality show. A soap opera.
The fact that Trump placed Never Trumper Marco Rubio in that position says it all.
Trump is a liar, was a liar, and will always be a liar.
Beginning with Tea Party in 2009 thousands of Americans gave time and money they often didn't have to save this country at the 11th hour. In Nov. 2010 the Tea Party gave the GOP House a landslide +63 victory--but the GOP House didn't want the new people. They wanted to remain the minority. Andrew Breitbart worked himself to death for us. The result is always the same. Either by co-opting or "just waiting" US taxpayers remain enslaved to the global genocide industry. To free US taxpayers US must be broken up.
"To free US taxpayers US must be broken up."
Phase it in.
Start with a French-farmers-on-tractors style assault on US Congress: the farmers dumped loads of manure on the streets blocking their law makers's access.
OTOH, does not seem to have brought about change.
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I would suggest that those on 'our' side stop bewailing the "pressure" Trump is under, vis a vis Bibi and Iran.
Every person alive is "under pressure" to make decisions between the good and the evil.
I have never read Heidegger, but I listen to a lot of pop culture novels while I do other work. Just finished a trilogy by Louise Penny, around the adage of the Wolf Within: the wolf is grey, or it is black; and they fight inside each person (bonus that the first two stories involved cloistered monks whose apostolate was to chant the Divine Office in choir).
Which one wins?
The wolf that you feed is the one that wins.
It is, perhaps, our misfortune as a society that Trump has spent so much of his life calculating which Wolf will provide the greater RoI rather than what, to my way of thinking, is a clear-cut moral and even political decision.
Great point, it must begin in phases--which is how we got where we are now. Someone was very patient, knew if they got control of schools the country could be destroyed in a generation.
Embarrassed at exploiting Mark's substack with my meanderings, I just ventured into my own Substack.
First effort is probably in need of editing; treats of certain assaults on US education systems, especially Catholic universities.
https://open.substack.com/pub/clyde167/p/catholicism-zionism-americanism?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
I agree, and I remember…
I was a member of the Tea Party Movement. Ron Paul Supporter and the RNC did to Ron Paul what the DNC turned around and did to Bernie Sanders. I was in Nashville when Sara Palin show up. I knew right then we had been co-opted.
I recall these events very well, thanks for mentioning your on the ground experience.