There’s a joke doing the rounds online which goes something like this: “Marco Rubio learning he has to become the new ____.”
The blank changes depending on the day. Sometimes the internet appoints him the next Pope, sometimes the manager of Manchester United, and occasionally even the Ayatollah of Iran. Like all good memes, it exaggerates a simple truth: in Washington’s increasingly chaotic politics, Rubio keeps turning up as the man expected to fill the next big role.
