RINO of the Year 2025
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- Pete Hegseth, for not fighting back as neoconservatives engaged in a hostile takeover of his department in the aftermath of Signalgate, having looked the other way as non-interventionist staffers were removed after being falsely accused of leaking.
- Marco Rubio, for hijacking the second Trump administration's foreign policy to make it even more neoconservative than that of his first administration. And also for refusing to fire Gavin Wax after he leaked private texts between private individuals to liberal Politico, despite the texts being of a nature which if revealed would likely result in violence being incited against the people who sent them, and after the Charlie Kirk assassination of all times.
- Michael Waltz, for Signalgate. Which likely was an intentional leak designed to turn public opinion against Pete Hegseth because he wasn't interventionist enough for neoconervatives like Waltz.
- Susie Wiles, for going to liberal Vanity Fair to falsely accuse JD Vance of being a RINO opportunist, while simultaneously promoting unrepentant neoconservative Marco Rubio as a sincere convert to America First conservatism, likely as part of a wider neoconservative plot to replace Vance as the presumptive Republican nominee in 2028.