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Little Marco Predicts

May 3, 2025

Watch.

Or, if Instagram won’t let you in, here’s what he said:


Jake Tapper: You compared Donald Trump to a Third-World dictator yesterday. How so?

Marco Rubio:  Well, I don’t know about a dictator; I said “a Third-World strongman.”  You know, he’s running for president so no matter what he won’t be a dictator unless our republic completely crumbles which I don’t anticipate it will.

But, yeah, here’s what happens in many countries around the world: You have a leader that emerges and basically says, “Don’t put your faith in yourselves. Don’t put your faith in society.  Put your faith in me.  I’m a strong leader and I’m gonna make things better all by myself.”  This is very typical. You see it in the Third World, you see it a lot in Latin America for decades.

Basically, the argument he’s making is that he single-handedly is gonna turn the country around. We’ve never been that kind of country. We have a president. The president is an American citizen who serves for a period of time, constrained by the constitution and the powers vested in that office. The president works for the people not the people the president and if you listen to the way he describes himself and what he’s going to do, he’s going to single-handedly do this and do that without regard to whether it’s legal or not.

Look. I think people are going to have to make up their minds.  I can tell you this: no matter what happens in this election, for years to come there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump, because this is not gonna end well.

— March 13, 2016.


Spot on, no?



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