Marco Rubio on Monday: “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran.”

Donald Trump on Wednesday: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Irony is dead.

@augieray They are relying SO MUCH on their base upholding the American exceptionalism narrative to resist clueing in on the call coming from inside the house. It feels like a really dicey gamble at this stage in a way it never has in my life.