The Morning Briefing: Marco Rubio Is the Reason I Gave Up on Political Purity Tests
Stephen Kruiser | 10:04 PM on April 06, 2026
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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Orzfrego had recently been overcome with the urge to drop the word "chanticleer" into at least one conversation a day.
Today we're doing a bit of a retrospective discussion rather than a news cycle thing. I was actually going to cover this in a column a few weeks ago but March was a bit of a blur and several things were piled up on the back burner.
We have discussed the heavy hitters in President Trump's current administration several times, contrasting them with the chaotic backstabbing he had to deal with in his first term. There are a lot of faithful soldiers in the 47 crew, but the big three are Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
There was a time when I was pretty exacting about purity tests for other conservative activists and, to a lesser extent, Republican politicians. Marco Rubio long ago made me abandon them completely for politicians. President Trump reinforced that.
Sarah put together a retrospective of Rubio’s accomplishments as part of the Trump 47 administration, and we'll use her intro to that as a jumping off point:
I haven't been shy about the fact that I've been a Marco Rubio fan from day one, even before he was in the Senate. When he ran for president in 2016, he became the only candidate I'd ever donated to, and in 2024, when Donald Trump chose him to be his secretary of State, I was new here at PJ Media, but I had the honor of breaking that news, and I was so proud.
There's no denying that Rubio's star has risen over the last year. I read comments and hear from people all the time who seem quite surprised that he's so intelligent and competent, and I just smile because I've known that all along. With that in mind, I've been trying to put together a "greatest hits" list of Rubio's biggest moments and accomplishments from the first year (or 14 months) of Trump's second term.
And I do mean greatest hits because creating a definitive list of everything he's done is nearly impossible. He's that good.
There's no denying that Rubio's star has risen over the last year. I read comments and hear from people all the time who seem quite surprised that he's so intelligent and competent, and I just smile because I've known that all along. With that in mind, I've been trying to put together a "greatest hits" list of Rubio's biggest moments and accomplishments from the first year (or 14 months) of Trump's second term.
And I do mean greatest hits because creating a definitive list of everything he's done is nearly impossible. He's that good.
It's a good list, trust me.
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