The Case for RFK Jr.
Throwing caution to the wind, a Kennedy scion is taking it to both parties.
Growing up in a Goldwater household, it’s hard to imagine that I’d ever cast a vote for a Kennedy. And I most likely won’t. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has more than a few disaffected Republicans contemplating the unimaginable.
If Trump should falter, there’s a serious case that he might be the best candidate to take on the swamp. Say what you will about the anti-vaxx crusader, during the COVID debacle, RFK Jr. got far more right than wrong.
In fact, his devastating critique of big pharma’s ‘regulatory capture’ in The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health has become a bestseller despite a ‘cancel culture’ blacklisting.1
To be sure, all medicines have side effects and societal progress requires trade-offs. Eliminating every ‘externality’ would throw the baby out with the bath water. But consumers, at the least, should know about them.
Not according to journalists who once touted every environmental claim the activist lawyer asserted, however. They have vehemently turned on Bobby Kennedy over his Coronavirus heterodoxy. That alone ought to tell you he’s probably hovering right over the target.
I referenced the media’s obvious duplicity in Party Animal, The Truth About President Trump, Power Politics & the Partisan Press:
The bottom line is that markets cannot function without the free flow of information. There is a conflict of interest in any newsroom which downplays managing a disease in favor of ‘windfall’ profits for vaccine and booster manufacturers who advertise on their platforms. Competition eventually reins in bad actors, but until then courts are there to protect the injured. Vaccine manufacturers, however, have special immunity from product liability suits (though there is a Vaccine Injury Compensation Program), which tilts the playing field even more.”
It’s paradoxical, while the gatekeepers want to suppress Kennedy’s COVID critique, that’s precisely what the media want him to be known for. Journalists understand an endless series of pot shots directed at his longtime anti-vaxx positions obscure his evolution as a politician and a Kennedy on a wide range of other issues.