In his endorsement of Donald Trump, Robert Kennedy Jr. continued to insist he remains "independent" and not a full-blown MAGA crank, laughably claiming that he has meaningful political disagreements with Trump. Kennedy argued that he was making a strategic alliance with the GOP against the Democratic Party, which he accused of being "the party of war, corruption, censorship, [and] big pharma." All nonsense, of course. Trump doesn't hide his support for Russia's war on Ukraine, routinely calls for the imprisonment of his critics, and wishes to repeal legislation that has allowed Democrats to lower drug prices. Mere days before endorsing Trump, Kennedy showcased his opposition to corruption by begging Vice President Kamala Harris for a job in exchange for not backing Trump. The "corrupt" Democratic candidate refused to bribe Kennedy.
On Monday, Kennedy offered another example of how his claims to "independence" are nonsense when he joined a Capitol roundtable hosted by the far-right Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc. titled — don't laugh! — "American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion." As Elaine Godfrey of the Atlantic wrote, "The alliance was the natural culmination of a broader trend in American politics that has seen the Trumpian right meld with the vax-skeptical, anti-establishment left: Woo-woo meets MAGA, you could call it, or, perhaps, the crunch-ificiation of conservatism." Funny but Godfrey is missing the mark by invoking the "left." The panel was replete with reactionaries whose alleged "liberal" pasts are asserted or assumed, yet not in evidence.
