Thread by @SteveSchmidtSES

Let’s dissect this a bit. First, @marcorubio does a tremendous job showing the difference between Patriotism and jingoism. Jingoism is easy; it’s a lazy and vapid persons idea of patriotism. It requires no duty and imposes no obligations. It is a perfectly empty ideology and

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1411711297448775681

thus attracts empty vessels like @marcorubio. Blustering statements aimed at straw men are the clear mark of an early stage jingoist, which Rubio surely is. The country is a great one in spite of men like Rubio, who are to self interested to stand up and defend Democracy from an

autocratic assault. @marcorubio is a shirker. When Trumps violent autocratic movement took root in America, Marco Rubio appeased it before he collaborated with it before he helped it whitewash a murderous insurrection. Marco Rubio is a founding father of sorts. He is one

of the small men and women who have abandoned all meaningful American principles and ideals to serve a cult of personality that has poisoned faith and belief in the legitimacy of our American democracy. Last night Fascists marched in Philadelphia. That is the threat.

America is a country of believers and @marcorubio believes in nothing except the cause of Marco. Men like that don’t get to lecture any American about patriotism on July 4th.