The reason you keep seeing people dunk on Marco Rubio for his John Lewis-Elijah Cummings mixup is because it’s part of a broader GOP phenomenon of publicly grieving Lewis’s death while largely being a stranger and opponent to his politics. We all sense it. Rubio just defined it.

The reason you keep seeing people dunk on Marco Rubio for his John Lewis-Elijah Cummings mixup is because it’s part of a broader GOP phenomenon of publicly grieving Lewis’s death while largely being a stranger and opponent to his politics.

We all sense it. Rubio just defined it.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 18, 2020