RFK Jr. and Donald Trump: a Good Fit
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched his campaign for President of the United States in April 2023 as a Democrat, like both his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and his father. Shunned by President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), he opted to quit (in October) the Democratic Party and campaign as an Independent. Then last week he gave a speech to the media titled “RFK Jr. Address to the Nation: Full Disclosure,” where he announced his decision to stop his campaign and support Donald Trump in his campaign for a second term as President of the United States.
In his moving 6,150-word address, RFK Jr. explains why he left the Democratic Party:
“I left that Party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the Party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big AG, and big money.”
He laments the fact that “democracy… has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media, and for our government, and most sadly at all, for me, for the Democratic Party.” He says:
“My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe to toe with any opponent in a battle of ideas. They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to judge when they don’t know whom they are choosing? And how can this look to the rest of the world?”
RFK Jr. considers the DNC’s pick of Vice President Kamala Harris a poor choice to succeed an enfeebled Joe Biden. He views her as an especially poor role model for advancing democratic processes and being the leader of the free world, saying:
“The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Kamala Harris based on nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly-produced circus… [And] there in Chicago a string of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 tim
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