Robert F. Kennedy's grandson is running for the White House in a crucial election.
have made something of a habit over the decades of being present, Forrest Gump-like, at critical junctures in history. Joseph Kennedy , the family’s domineering patriarch, served as US ambassador to the UK in the run-up to World War II. John F. Kennedy was president when, during the Cuban missile crisis, the Cold War came frighteningly close to turning thermo-nuclear hot.
Much like Perot, Kennedy is a human headline. This week, he called Biden “a much worse threat to democracy” than Trump, after surmising that the president’s attempts to pressure social media platforms into taking down posts promoting misinformation about COVID was more egregious than Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection, which he has also condemned.
What makes his presence so intriguing is not just his ancestral bloodline. It is where he sits in the political spectrum. Robert F. Kennedy is where the American left meets the American right. He’s a clickbait candidate for fellow anti-vaxxers and conspiracy peddlers. RFK Jr has amplified the specious claim, for example, that COVID vaccines were developed to control people through microchips.
Democrats, of course, are still traumatised by the 2000 election, when the consumer advocate Ralph Nader cost Al Gore the presidency against George W. Bush. In Florida alone, where Bush’s official winning margin was just 537 votes, Nader received 97,488 votes. Nationally, Nader polled just 2.7 per cent of the vote. Yet that was more than enough to act as a spoiler for Al Gore.
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