April that day robert kennedy jr. his threw presidential candidacy Joe Biden sounded an evacuation alarm at the Boston hotel that hosted the launch to finalize the 2024 Democratic nomination. The applicant took the opportunity to propose this. dark forces They tried to stop him, just like makes it happen Inc. killed his uncle JFKand he died was involved in the assassination of his father, Bobby Kennedy, or that he was a victim of years of “censorship” because of his personal positions. “Nice try,” he joked when the alarm went off. During the two hours of the show, neither he nor any of those present left the room.
A member of the most famous political dynasty in the United States enters the electoral race, Glorious career as an environmental lawyer in the 1990s led him to become one. The most iconic figures of the anti-vaccine movement, mostly taken as an anecdote. ‘The New York Times’, among other media, wrote that this “is unlikely to pose a serious threat to Biden”.
Things have changed. Now the same ‘Times’ is Kennedy’s “a headache“a high-profile reminder for the president seeking re-election” many Democrat voters would prefer fresh blood“And as the White House, the party apparatus, and the Biden campaign coordinate to ignore it publicly, it’s getting harder and harder, and more and more people are realizing, as Naomi Klein wrote in ‘The Guardian’:ignoring is not an option“.
The numbers help to understand why. In two polls in April and May, largely revived by the recognition of his name, Kennedy eventually took the #1 spot. 21% and 20% support among Democratic-leaning or leaning voters. In other accounts, their percentage has dropped to 8% or 9%, but on average that RealClearPolitics currently maintains. Moving at 14% support. A supportive Political Action Supercommittee said on Monday, 10.5 million dollars, including more than two million donations and “equal” incoming funds from Democrats and Republicans. And what is undeniable is that the 69-year-old candidate is now a the stone in the shoe of an eighty-year-old president According to some polls, more than 60% of Democrats consider themselves too old to stand for reelection.
controversial positions
In general media, lists conspiracy theories, misinformation or lies HE kennedy embraced, tossed or supported, and their most controversial positions. This includes the idea: group shots depends on use antidepressants (Opposes the ban of offensive weapons), exposure atrazine herbicide later gender dysphoriathat 5G networks “to collect our data and control our behavior“, the radiation wireless networks allows toxins in the blood to enter the brain or brain. HIV It does not cause AIDS.
At the same time, Kennedy, with his squeaky voice spasmodic dysphonia (a neurological disorder linked at least in part to the flu vaccine) wins space, resonance, and support in conservative and ultra-conservative mediainside digital audio file And areas with a liberal vein or those who present themselves as: bastions of freedom of expression that secure it under attack. accepted by the numbers. Silicon valley like jack dorseyTwitter creator or david sacksand by far-right figures Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon anyone Roger Stone. donald trump He described him as “a very intelligent man”.
Vaccines and the epidemic
Kennedy, who was described as the “hero of the planet” by ‘Time’ in the 90s because of his environmentalist studies, was educated at Harvard, London School of Economics and University of Virginia and overcame his heroin addiction. Mercury until Discredited arguments linking vaccines, and especially thiomersal, to autism. An explosive article in Rolling Stone and Salon.com in 2005 in which he made this claim was pulled by publications in 2011 after several bug fixes. (The ‘Rolling Stone’ also published an article in 2006 assuring that the 2004 election of George Bush against John Kerry was stolen).
Kennedy, through the Child Defense Fund,”Vaccine safety, “not total opposition to immunization”. But died Featured Actor for Anti-Vaccinesand a key figure in the “health care freedom” movement. And when the epidemic contributes to these radicals coming together in an insoluble magma with people who question or resist the government, big drugs, media and social networks as they fight and silence any views that are dissonant or defy measures. adopted, their status elevated.
Kennedy went so far as to say “even in the world”. Germany Hitler You can cross the Alps to Switzerland, hide in the attic like him Anna Frank“, a comment that was publicly condemned by his third and current wife, actress Cheryl Hines, and later made for herself. he apologized With Holocaust victims. However he did not give up his search against vaccines and government measures, to the desperation of most family members.
made it happen. covid One “weapon of war“, one of the restrictions CIA plans to impose “authoritarian control”something to do with climate emergency. He said there are secret labs that design weapons to kill people of certain races.
Sold over one million copies The real Anthony Fauci bookSubtitled ‘Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the global war against democracy and public health’, he denounced the epidemiologist for “helping to organize and wage a historic war”. blow to western democracy“. And gone banned on social media like Instagram to spread misinformation, but their Accounts have been reinstated for being a candidate.
“First MAGA Democrat”
Kennedy’s campaign, which several outlets described as “democrat MAGA” (short for the Trump movement Make America Great Again), directed by Dennis Kucinich Former congressman who brought together the most progressive wing of the Democratic party in 2008 to challenge Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And his candidacy goes according to the times.
When will it arrive Two-party paradigm leaks in the USand when in record low confidence citizenship system, institutions, politicians, press, justice system… At the same time, in disappointment, anti-government line and feeling step back against big companiesToday, a quarter of Americans are skeptical of covid vaccines and the ground is becoming more and more fertile for conspiracy theories.
And columnist Michelle Goldberg identified the “a si” reflection in the movement that supported her.Important social phenomenon after covid: A coalition of insecure bypassing distinctions between left and right“They seem to be there, from anti-vaccine to libertarians, Democrats who have no appetite for more Biden, or Republicans who are in line with Trump’s message but fed up with the former president.
against orthodoxy
Before the electorate, Kennedy presents himself as a politician willing to break with the orthodox.fight against censorship“already”save democracy‘a kind of institutional plutocracy’ that ‘makes it corrupt fusion of state power and corporationsthreatening to create new type of institutional feudalismHis message about the influence, power and influence of major industries such as agri-food, chemicals and pharmaceuticals resonates with some voters in both parties.
“People do not trust authority because they lie to them.“Kennedy also Democratic Party (“censorship party”, in words) and media (“propagandists of the powerful”). Inside immigration It’s not racist to say we need it. close borders“. He said Ukrainians ” is used aspawns in a proxy war between the two great powers“and he argued that Russia was “acting in good faith” in its invasion of Ukraine. And he affirmed that he wanted to change industrial military spending approaches with an intrusive mind and towards what he called “Fortress of America: arm ourselves at home”.
despite his the path to candidacy is unlikelyThat doesn’t mean Biden can’t affect his candidacy, especially if he wins. new hampshire, a state relegated to the primary under the new calendar sponsored by the Democratic National Committee at the behest of the president, who wants to start in South Carolina. And the National Review, one of the conservative media launched to praise Kennedy, even speculates that this could happen. Used to undermine Bidenforce the race president to retreat and let the game kick in California Governor Gavin Newsomeven vice president Kamala Harris.