Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sounds like a MAGA Republican 2024 hopeful

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By Eugene Robinson

If Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name were Robert F. Smith Jr., he would be written off as an anti-vaccine nutjob. His pedigree is enough to make some Democrats give his presidential campaign a look — and they will find that he is indeed an anti-vaccine nutjob and that he often sounds a lot like a MAGA Republican.

This will come as a disappointment to the right-wing media outlets, unhinged conspiracy theorists and faux-libertarian billionaires who are doing their best to pretend Kennedy’s delusionary candidacy is a viable challenge to President Biden.

It is true that about 15 percent of Democrats say they support Kennedy, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, as opposed to 62 percent who favor Biden. And I get it: Many Democrats wish there were a younger alternative to the 80-year-old Biden; and Kennedy, 69, has that magical name. The problem comes when Kennedy opens his mouth — and reveals that he lives in a make-believe world of paranoid conspiracy theories.

His most dangerous notion is that lifesaving vaccines are a menace — that childhood vaccines cause autism and coronavirus vaccines are harmful. He is absolutely wrong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/19/robert-kennedy-jr-campaign-antivaxx-conspiracy/

[emulatorloo]

1. He's in love with all the MAGA conspiracies.

A ton of MAGA’s love him on twitter, I have seen quite a few say he would make an excellent VP for Trump.

More from Eugene:

But his deep affinity for conspiracy doesn’t stop there. For a while, he crusaded against 5G internet technology, claiming it damages human DNA and is a secret tool of mass surveillance. He has accused Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates of working to develop an “injectable chip” that would allow, once again, mass surveillance. These are sentiments more commonly expressed on a street corner, at loud volume, while wearing a tinfoil hat.

Kennedy has said he believes that the CIA was behind the 1963 assassination of his uncle President John F. Kennedy and that there is “very convincing” evidence the CIA was also responsible for the assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968. (Back here in the real world, JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald and RFK was killed by Sirhan Sirhan.) Asked by Rogan whether he, too, could be a target of CIA assassins, Kennedy said, “I gotta be careful. I’m aware of that, you know, I’m aware of that danger.” He added, “I take precautions.”


On current topics, he is more in tune with MAGA Republican policies than those of today’s Democratic Party. He is sharply critical of the Biden administration’s record on immigration, pledging to somehow “seal the border permanently.” He has attacked U.S. support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, calling the war “a setup by the neocons and the CIA.” And on a podcast hosted by Canadian internet personality Jordan Peterson, he claimed there was an increase in the numbers of transgender youths, which he blamed on their “swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals.”

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Does he still work at Morgan and Morgan?

[Hortensis]

3. Another anti-establishment populist campaign. This time sounds like

a selection of populist top hits from both sides meant to appeal to both sides and go after Biden from both sides -- LW economic populist resentments combined with RW anti- Big Government grievances, talk radio conspiracist craziness, general faux science, mystic woo-woo, and packs of populist attack dogs.

Blending somewhere in the "middle," but maybe that's middle mainstream AND the far side of the horseshoe?

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4. Just show those pictures of him with Bannon, Stone and Flynn to show how he's such a "devoted

democrat”

Looking at that picture alone tells me all I need to know about RFK jr. if his Dad was alive he’d be spinning that his son is such a right wing puppet!