I thought that Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz were terrible picks for their present positions, because that same ilk - Pompeo and Bolton - had sabotaged Trump in his first administration.
In retrospect, they were fantastic picks. It appears to me that they are helping Trump execute his policies and not theirs. I'm not persuaded by "trust Trump" or "trust the plan", considering that people who say that now bash people who wrongly trusted Trump and praised Chris Wray when he was appointed.
So I was wrong, and I really hope I continue to be wrong.
I am still waiting to be convinced by Rubio. He's doing all the right things, but I don't know if he's a better version of Ted Cruz, or if he's a genuine convert.
It’s impossible to predict these things. There are probably a lot of secret patriots who previously looked like snakes because they were handcuffed by unfortunate political realities, and there are definitely a lot of snakes who are now pretending to be patriots because it’s the best way to secure power and sabotage this administration. Problem is both groups look the same unless they foolishly stumble into a valid purity test - like Vivek - and a lot of them are getting to be pretty good at avoiding those traps.