Here’s hoping that Marco Rubio’s political science lectures weren’t about institutions because he doesn’t seem to have a very solid grip on them.

Way back in 2014 Marco Rubio was worried about Executive Overreaches:

This idea, that somehow your idea is so good, that it is somehow above the law and above the Constitution, is a very dangerous one. It not only violates the Constitution, it violates the very principles which have kept us a free and democratic country for so long. It’s one of the things that sets us apart from the rest of the world.... One of the reasons why we have not been able to address, in the proper way, many of the issues the President raised, is because of these sorts of actions that he is taking. It’s undermined a slew of other potential policy areas where there could be agreement on. But when you take unilateral executive action, you undermine the entire process. And, you make people more cautious about dealing with you because they don’t trust you to enforce the laws in the future. As you appropriately cited, ObamaCare is an example of that.

And on the campaign trail in January, he was still worried about the damage Obama was doing:

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told an audience in Raymond, N.H., that Obama “has waged war on the Constitution.”

But today, when it comes to endorsing Donald Trump and easing concerns voters might have over his hostile, autocratic, even dictatorial approach, Rubio is very optimistic in the ability of the Oval Office to tame him and the Senate to contain him:

“I view the Senate as a place that can always act as a check and balance on whoever the next president is,” Rubio said on WGN radio on Wednesday. “I also think there’s something to be said for, once you’re actually in that position, once you’re actually working at this thing, and you’re in there, and you start to have access to information that perhaps you didn’t have before, especially for someone that’s never been in politics, I think it starts to impact your views a little bit.”

So let’s see. The Oval Office was unable to humble the ambitious Obama, but will tamp down on Trump? The very Republicans who weren’t able to coordinate on a candidate like Bush or Walker or Rubio himself will somehow figure out how to check and balance abuses of power after the fact?

Oh, poor Little Marco. Please don’t hire this man to teach any more political science courses. You’ll be doing your students a disservice if you do.