By Michael Treiman
In the midterms elections of November 2026, the Republican Party endured a tremendous loss, giving up seats in the House, Senate, state governorships, and local positions en masse. Many believe this loss was due to the Trump administration's massive blunder in the war in Iran. After their defeat, the GOP is looking for heads to roll. Rumors abound that Secretary of State Marco Rubio may be next on the chopping block, and we believe this could be none too soon. The public has had many chances to vote on both Marco Rubio's positions, and Rubio as an individual, and he has been rejected over and over. Nevertheless, like a fruit fly infestation after leaving out a bunch of bananas, Rubio just keeps coming back.
Remember Rubio's first public rejection: during his presidential run back in 2016. He was an early frontrunner, campaigning on increased military spending and confrontation with China and Russia, reversing the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA - Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), and support of Israel. On the debate stage, Trump dubbed him “Little Marco,” due to his diminutive stature, and diminutive intellectual prowess. He stumbled over his words and repeated slogans over and over like a broken record. His lack of charisma left voters non-plussed, and his campaign flopped: earning him only 167 delegates, behind Ted Cruz's 551 and Donald Trump's 1447. In 2016 Trump ran and won on a platform of ending wars and America First, and the American people made their will known clearly: the neoconservative position of military aggression was over.
Americans rejoiced as Rubio was shut out of the White House, although the Miami born Cuban American remained as a Senator of Florida for the intervening years. Rubio belongs to a class of children of expats, who seek to use their position in the United States to settle a grudge against their home country. Marco Rubio has always been focused on intervention in Latin America, especially Cuba, to reverse people's revolutions and bring back the dictatorships of figures like Augusto Pinochet of Chile, and Fulgencio Batista of Cuba. These Florida Cubans have been a powerful lobby group in the United States for regime change wars, and led in part to disastrous US operations such as the Bay of Pigs invasion.
As a senator, Little Marco was a staunch voice for imperialism and military escalation. He pushed trade restrictions against China and greater military support for Taiwan, a potential flash point for a new World War. He supported increased sanctions against his fraternal homeland of Cuba, attempting to strangle and starve his former countrymen. He championed the fake president Juan Guiado in a failed regime change plot against Venezuela. He egged on conflict with Russia over Ukraine, supplying weapons and supporting economic sanctions against Russia. On Iran, he also took a hard line, calling for increased economic sanctions and military action against Iran in concert with Israel. On every issue, Marco Rubio chose the path of maximum conflict. His record was clear.
In 2024, Trump won his second term, joining with a menagerie of outsider and anti-establishment figures, such as Tulsi Gabbard, R.F.K. Jr, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Americans surveyed the field: Biden/Harris had just spent 2 years funding and arming a brutal genocide in Palestine, and had overseen the most deadly war in Europe since World War 2, in Ukraine. Trump was running on a non-interventionist peace platform. The American people chose what seemed to be the lesser of two evils. Given Trump's coalition and campaign messaging, no one thought we would be seeing Little Marco break into the executive branch.
However, the Trump administration and the establishment had other plans. On January 20, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State in a unanimous 99-0 vote. Establishment Democrats and Republicans rejoiced in the appointment of Rubio, as he was seen as a safe pick to keep Trump on an aggressive military stance in line with neoconservatism. The will of the voters had refuted the principles of Rubio, but the power of both major parties rammed him down our throats once more, and trampled on our democratic will. In the 2 years that followed, the outsider voices in the Trump coalition have been systematically excised, with the resignation of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the defeat of Representative Thomas Massie in his primary election. Meanwhile, the old school neoconservatives like Epstein-bestie Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and regime change enthusiast Marco Rubio have taken center stage.
Marco Rubio was central to the operation in Venezuela, which involved the extrajudicial killing of multiple Venezuelan fishermen, the kidnapping plot of president Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores, and the killing of about 100 Cuban and Venezuelan soldiers. Marco cheered for the war in Iran, the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei along with his 14 month old granddaughter, and the death of 160+ schoolgirls and teachers at the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab during a triple-tap Tomahawk missile strike. Bloody minded Marco is responsible for reckless and unimaginable carnage. Many of Marco's wishes as a senator came true during his stint as U.S. Secretary of State under Trump. However, imperial overreach finally bit back in the form of a major U.S. defeat in Iran. The American people had had enough of the cascading consequences of aggression, and sent a strong message of repudiation during the 2026 midterm elections, with sweeping Republican defeats.
Stories have recently emerged that Marco Rubio, eyeing a 2028 presidential run, is considering resigning his office, in order to distance himself from his bloody failures in Iran. We welcome his departure, and hope to see the last of him. However, like a fruit fly infestation, the establishment forces continue bringing people like Little Marco into our vision, even after we have swatted him away a million times. The wise American people will remember this in 2028: Little Marco can't separate his reputation from the dismal failures of his legacy. Americans have repeatedly voiced their desire for peace and an end to Marco Rubio's neoconservative warmongering. The American people will make our voices known: we will not accept a return to the old ways of war, and we will not accept a Marco Rubio presidency in 2028. Let us bury the gruesome story of Marco Rubio, and let his legacy lie forgotten, as we build a future of peace, cooperation and prosperity.