The RFK Potential for Political Disruption
Commentary
It was my pleasure to attend the enormous gathering in Boston in which Robert Kennedy, Jr., announced his candidacy for president, thus challenging Biden in the primaries. He is already polling at 14 percent among voters who supported Biden in 2020. There seems to be real potential here for something dramatic.
The major media reaction to the announcement was of course to trash him, forever describing him as nothing but an anti-vaxxer, which is a way of dismissing everything about him. One suspects that he won’t be so easily swept aside with epithets. It didn’t work when they tried this with Trump and it might not work this time either….