The question to ask, however, is which Marco Rubio will show up at Foggy Bottom if he gets the job next year. Will he be a hawkish, open-markets, democracy-promoting optimist or a more inward-looking, antiglobalist pessimist? Either scenario is plausible because Mr. Rubio's worldview has... evolved over the years. His hawkishness has mostly persisted while his embrace of globalization curdled.
Even a cursory look at Mr. Rubio's political evolution over the years suggests that his ultimate success will not hinge on his deep and genuine knowledge of world politics but rather his ability to position himself at the dead center of the G.O.P.'s fractured ideological spectrum.
As populist nationalism consumed the Republican Party, Mr. Rubio shifted to accommodate Mr. Trump's worldview. Compared with someone accused of statutory rape, someone accused of sexual assault and a suspected Russian sympathizer, Mr. Rubio looks conventional.
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