{"id":2151,"date":"2026-06-24T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:37:17","slug":"trump-has-a-successor-in-mind-but-his-base-is-sabotaging-his-big-plan-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Trump has a successor in mind\u00a0 \u2014 but his base is sabotaging his big plan: conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s own base is ruining one of his biggest plans, according to a conservative commentator \u2014 namely, his potential desire to anoint Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his successor instead of Vice President JD Vance.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2149\">Busted: MAGA politician accused of lying about donations to veterans groups<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe begin with two quotes. They won\u2019t seem related, but they are,\u201d wrote Nick Catoggio of The Dispatch on Tuesday. \u201cThe first: \u2018I would not support the Republican Party. There\u2019s no chance I would support the Republican Party\u2026. How could I or any American voter support a political party that\u2019s not loyal to the United States, that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens?&#8230; I\u2019ve voted Republican my entire life \u2026 [but] I\u2019m out. And if I\u2019m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first quote came from conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, Catoggio said, and the second quote \u2014 \u201cCubans love gold.\u201d \u2014 came from Trump. He added that the context, as gleaned from a recent book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, was Trump refusing to remove the gilded updates to the Oval Office decor in case he is succeeded as president by Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTucker\u2019s quote speaks for itself and will be received warmly on both ends of the American right,\u201d Catoggio added. \u201cTo postliberals, isolationists, Israel obsessives, and other creatures who inhabit the GOP\u2019s chud wing, it\u2019s a righteous cri de coeur against the White House\u2019s foolish war in Iran. To classical liberals, hawks, Israel supporters, and the rest of what remains of the party\u2019s negligible conservative faction, it\u2019s a long-overdue matter of \u2018good riddance.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite Trump seemingly wanting Rubio to succeed him, Catoggio doubts that this will manifest as easily as he wants. Carlson\u2019s recent defection from the Republican Party over his war against Iran speaks to a possible future in which the party base does not automatically do the president\u2019s bidding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA right-wing base that trends toward Tuckerism in the aftermath of our national embarrassment will come to appreciate Vance as an avatar of peace,\u201d Catoggio opined. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t start silly, self-defeating wars. He gets America out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThat&#8217;s what a winning wager looks like for the veep. Whereas a losing wager looks like this: Republican voters decide that the fatal mistake with Iran was failing to \u2018finish the job\u2019 by using military force to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Doves like Vance are schmucks twice over, they come to believe, having first discouraged Trump from prosecuting the war to an honorable end and later selling him on a deal that will shower billions of dollars on a terrorist regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2147\">Critics cackle as Trump lackey attempts to compare president to a founding father<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catoggio continued, \u201cThe vice president isn\u2019t an avatar of peace in this view; he\u2019s an avatar of American humiliation. The United States needs a leader who isn\u2019t afraid to use military power and who\u2019ll prioritize victory once he chooses to do so: If that\u2019s where GOP opinion lands when the Iran smoke clears\u2014and given the right\u2019s faith in \u2018toughness\u2019 and \u2018strength,\u2019 it\u2019s more likely than not\u2014then Rubio will be the obvious beneficiary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breaking down prevailing sentiments within the Republican Party, however, Catoggio concluded that Vance\u2019s bet is the better one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVance is more likely to unite the right than Rubio is,\u201d Catoggio wrote. \u201cIt will be easier for the vice president to persuade skeptical right-wing hawks to turn out for him in a general election, I think, than it will be for the secretary of state to persuade skeptical Lindberghians to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThe sort of rank-and-file Republican partisan who defaults toward hawkishness and who might resent Vance for the Iran deal will nonetheless faithfully prioritize tribal victory over Democrats in 2028. No amount of Trump blather in 2024 about \u2018warmongering\u2019 by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will disabuse the American right of its atavistic fear that a foreign policy led by leftists will be dangerously weak relative to whatever\u2019s on offer from the GOP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, though, Catoggio doubted whether Rubio\u2019s proximity to Trump will be an asset in a general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still wouldn\u2019t bet on a Cuban American in the Oval Office in 2029, though,\u201d Catoggio wrote. \u201cThe inevitable trajectory of the president\u2019s final two and a half years in office will leave the electorate hungry for change, and \u2018Donald Trump\u2019s secretary of state\u2019 isn\u2019t very change-y. But if you\u2019re trying to envision a Rubio administration, I\u2019ve given you the path. All it\u2019ll take is deep, lasting disillusionment with postliberalism in government and right-wing infotainment by a party rank-and-file that\u2019s spent 10 years being indoctrinated into an authoritarian cult. Good luck, Marco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2146\">New book exposes JD Vance as a fraud<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s own base is ruining one of his biggest plans, according to a conservative commentator \u2014 namely, his potential desire to anoint Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his successor instead of Vice President JD Vance.\u201cWe begin with two quotes. 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