Marco Rubio never really pretended to be anything but a standard-issue Reaganite Republican when he ran for President in 2016. When Donald Trump memorably mocked “Little Marco,” the point of the bit was that Rubio was the ultimate establishment stuffed shirt.

More recently, though, Rubio has tried to rhetorically reposition himself as a “populist.” It’s long been unclear what, if anything, that term means when it’s applied to Republicans like Rubio (or for that matter, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, or Josh Hawley) who oppose Medicare for All, oppose the fight for a $15 minimum wage, and even oppose laws like the recently proposed Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act meant to make it easier for working people to organize unions to fight for better wages and conditions. But the media has largely bought the act.

Yet in a new USA Today op-ed, Rubio has seemingly taken a position that’s actually economically populist. At least, that’s how the media has reported it. CNBC’s headline, for example, was “Marco Rubio endorses Amazon unionization effort, bringing bipartisan support.”