RFK Jr. joins the MAGA creature cantina
PLUS: This past week's commentaries
Panic not. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsing Trump is a good thing for Kamala Harris, and a clarifying event in a race that must remain crystal clear. Clarity is a good thing.
I want to make a point about a man named Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 while running for president at the age of 42. There is no person under the age of 55 in America, including me, who was alive when Robert Kennedy delivered the greatest extemporaneous political speech in American history, while informing a large crowd of black Americans in Indianapolis that Dr. King had been assassinated.
The political heir to those words is not Senator Kennedy’s son, but rather, Kamala Harris. The repudiation of Senator Kennedy’s legacy, convictions, message and patriotism by his eldest son is an ugly event because Bobby Kennedy was an American giant. I hope you will take some time and consider reading/watching what I have said about him and his brother, including these two commentaries below:
John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy are immensely important figures in this profound moment of national testing. The two brothers, martyred in their 40s, have left for us a great inheritance. We have their words, and we know what was in their hearts. I hope everyone on the Harris -Walz campaign is burying themselves in their words because there is no greater, wiser, or better ones to be found to help guide us out from the Trump malignancy. They are medicine for our national soul.
The endorsement of convicted felon Trump by Senator Kennedy’s son does not belong to the late senator, his family, his legacy, or even Cheryl Hines. Collective guilt and guilt by association are unjust philosophies. In fact, they are evil. The endorsement is singular, and stands on its own merits. A man who was named by one of our greatest patriots has turned against the faith of his father, and embraced fascism and a man of malice, retribution and vengeance. Everything is in the open, and everything is perfectly clear.
RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Trump is not an additive event. Kennedy’s poll numbers do not accrue to those of Donald. Instead, Kennedy has shattered faith with his supporters. He has made perfectly clear to the people to whom Oprah was speaking where the creature cantina can be found.
Question: are there any comparable brain worms or dead bears close to the Harris-Walz campaign?
Answer: no.
Why is this?
Because it’s the Trump campaign that is the weirdo fest. Truly.
Every American seeking normalcy has a perfectly clear choice. There is no space for confusion. There are only clear choices, and that’s a good thing because the race has once again become about Trump.
Clarity. It’s a good thing.
Kamala Harris for president.
This past week’s commentaries
Need to catch up on all that happened this past week, including the most electrifying political convention of the electronic age? Here are just some of my commentaries:
Thank you so much for this truly brilliant piece, Steve. I am old enough (86) to remember both Kennedy "boys," and Iremember well the days we lost each of them - days of shock and sorrow beyond belief. I was working at UCSF at the time of John Kennedy's assassination and one of the interns we knew was by then at the hospital in Dallas where they took John F. Kennedy. He called us to let us know Kennedy was dead and he was in tears at the time. And when I heard the news about Bobby, someone saying "Somebody shot Kennedy," for a few seconds I thought I had gone back in time to 1962 - and then it was "not him, too!" Both of those days have been with me since and will be with me forever. RFK, Jr. is a sick man and should be put somewhere he can be cared for accordingly - along with tRUMP. Apparently nobody cares enough about either of them to show them that kindness.
For those of us old enough to remember our love and support of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and the unbearable sorrow we felt when they were assassinated, there can be no better way to dishonor the memory of both great men, than to endorse a monster who has destroyed this nation and defiled its citizens. Thank you Steve for this fitting castigation of RFK,Jr. and reposting your eloquent tributes to his uncle and father.