When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination earlier this year it was mostly met with giggles. But not long after those giggles turned to gasps as a shocking poll put the scion of America’s most famous political family at nearly 20%, with a struggling Joe Biden mired at 62% of his party’s own voters. While this could be a simple case of “anyone but Joe,” it’s also possible that some Democrat voters see in RFK Jr. a candidate who can move the party of Jefferson and Jackson away from progressive ideology and back to common sense.
In important ways Kennedy seems to be wildly out of step with Democrat Party orthodoxy. It’s worth taking a quick look at a few examples. Most obvious is his position against COVID vaccines which sets him directly at odds with the party of vax and boost. Last week Kennedy said he thought it was unfair for biological men to play sports with biological women, another verboten position among most Democrats. Going back a bit further we saw photos of RFK Jr. with James O’Keefe, the controversial firebrand conservative journalist who most progressives speak of with Joseph Goebbels in the same breath.
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