How long do you give ‘Little Marco’ in the ‘Mump’ regime?
How long do you give ‘Little Marco’ as sec state in the ‘Mump’ regime? Just to decode, Little Marco is the nickname Donald Trump gave to Marco Rubio during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. Mump is the term coined by Yale historian Timothy Snyder to acknowledge Elon Musk’s very significant input in the Donald Trump administration.
The question about Mr Rubio is worth pondering. It’s difficult to think of another living human so obviously suffering in the public eye.
As Shakespeare said, “the eyes are the window to your soul” and to look at this man’s peepers is to glimpse acute agony, someone whose inner being is writhing in distress.
Some say that Mr Rubio’s eyes are dead. As if he’s lost his soul and is but an empty carcass in a suit. Or like the Death Eaters have been at him.
It’s mainly because Mr Rubio’s relatively brief record as America’s chief diplomat is basically about Little Marco sucking up to the Big Don. It shows no trace of the feisty senator of the past who never tired of explaining how his world view was informed by antipathy to dictatorships (his parents fled Cuba for freedom in the US) and in favour of US dominance.
In fact, as others have pointed out, Mr Rubio doesn’t even sound like himself any longer but like a parody of Mump-speak.
This is how he summed up the Mump regime’s decision to cut off US aid to South Africa, Mr Musk’s country of birth: “South Africa is doing very bad things”, he said about that country’s land reform legislation, which Mr Musk believes to be anti-white farmers. It was a Little Marco statement on X and probably breaks records for childish and undiplomatic declarations by foreign ministers.
Take a look at Mr Rubio’s response to the Big Don’s extraordinary proposal that the US will assume ownership of the Gaza Strip and send its two million Palestinians out of the territory: “ Make Gaza Beautiful Again.” Again, a Little Marco attempt at Mump-speak.
As Polito has pointed out, “Rubio once spoke out against dictatorships from Havana to Tehran; now he’s standing by as groups that defy such regimes lose US funding. Rubio long insisted that the US must remain the world’s dominant power; now he’s suggesting that a multipolar world is an inescapable reality — a remarkable statement for a supposed China hawk that turned heads in academic circles. Rubio once touted the work of the US Agency for International Development; now he’s backing its dismantling. Rubio once sought to strengthen ties with America’s allies; now he’s promoting Trump’s threats to invade such friends.”
Does the secret of Little Marco’s dead eyes lie in the fact he no longer knows the distinction between true and false?
Twas well said that “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
Originally published at https://www.rashmee.com
