Everyone who remains in President Donald Trump’s orbit for long enough eventually suffers as a result, either by ending up on the president’s bad side or by discarding all prior moral convictions in order to stay consistent with him. 

However, nobody to this point has navigated the dangerous waters of Trump world better than Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has been surprisingly able to stay on the president’s good side while mitigating the extent to which the president undermines our international relationships. 

Rubio has been masterful in laundering legitimate conservative foreign policy arguments through the mess that is the second Trump presidency. 

Rubio has done his best to cover for Trump's missteps 

When I say Rubio is laundering serious conservative foreign policy doctrines through Trump, I mean two different things.

First, he has been able to get the president to latch on to serious conservative doctrines in pursuit of legitimate foreign policy goals, and he has been able to mitigate the damage that Trump does when he lashes out at our........

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