OPINION:
For the media and political establishment, the problem with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the same problem they have with Donald Trump. He cannot be ignored. And when they try to ignore him, he just keeps sprouting up in new places, saying all the things he is not supposed to say.
As with Mr. Trump, their powerlessness to control Bobby Kennedy’s son (President John F. Kennedy’s nephew!) drives them crazy.
“Memo to the Media: You Are Not Obligated to Cover a Crackpot Like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” warned one totally irrelevant magazine that was irrelevant even back when people still read magazines.
And then Mr. Kennedy pops up in 10 new places talking about vaccines and the collusion between pharmaceutical companies that invent and produce the vaccines and the governments that coerce citizens into buying them and injecting them into themselves and their children.
The media and political establishment are particularly sensitive to any discussion about the COVID-19 “vaccine” that they relentlessly pushed these past few years. And while that “vaccine” did not work as they all assured us it would, innocent taxpayers are still paying for the unused jabs that nobody wants.
Not only that, innocent taxpayers are still footing the bill for all these government “public service announcements” that are still promoting these “vaccines” that do not work and which nobody wants.
This is what opened the door to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now polling in double digits among Democratic voters in his campaign against President Biden.
The media and political establishment are so duplicitous and shamelessly self-serving that they have not just destroyed the credibility of their precious COVID-19 “vaccine.” They have also managed to seriously damage the credibility of actual working vaccines that have been broadly accepted by the American public for decades.
(What does it say, by the way, that the beating heart of the anti-vaxxer, anti-lockdown movement is in the Democratic Party? Who knew there were still so many White supremacists in the Donkey Party?)
The media and party establishment have no one but themselves to blame for the entry of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the mainstream political debate today. Just as they have no one but themselves to blame for the entry of Donald Trump into the mainstream political debate in 2016.
The two men could hardly be more different — at least on the surface.
“Don from Queens” is a vulgar barbarian at the gate, earning his way into the party using elbows and insults and making damned sure nobody forgets that he earned his place on his own. He blurts out the scalding truth in any setting.
Mr. Kennedy is cut from American political royalty, born famous. His patrician, retiring style and quavering immodulated voice belie the urgency of his arguments against the modern political establishment that has destroyed his family’s beloved Democratic Party.
He is an old-school Democrat who has devoted his life to individual rights, helping the poor, and cleaning up the air and water. He also campaigns against littering, a strangely unfashionable message in today’s modern Democratic Party, which has been hijacked by pro-war Wall Street globalists who peddle welfare as a means to maintain power rather than help the poor.
As different as Messrs. Kennedy and Trump are, they occupy similar positions in this historic political moment. Both men are treated with the same level of terror and vitriol from the media and the establishments of their respective parties.
Just last week, CNN newsreader Jake Tapper and MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow ordered their respective control rooms to cease showing footage of Mr. Trump out of fear that he might once again trick voters into supporting him using forbidden arguments. This even as both networks continue to use Mr. Trump — or the breathless prospect of him — to goose ratings and make money for their corporate masters.
It is all so delicious that it makes your teeth hurt.
You have got the Bad Boy from Queens and the Bad Boy from Nantucket. The only difference in outcomes is that Mr. Trump is far likelier to succeed because his party is slightly less corrupt than Mr. Kennedy’s.
It is true that the Republican establishment — including Mr. Biden’s thoroughly corrupt Department of Justice — will do everything in its power to prevent Mr. Trump from gaining the Republican nomination. Because of party nomination rules, however, these efforts will fail. The only way to stop Mr. Trump is with a better Republican candidate in a free and open primary brawl.
The Democratic Party, meanwhile, is far more ruthless and run far more tightly by the power brokers in control. And they will do everything in their might to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from crashing their new globalist party.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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