The Strange New Respect for Authoritarian Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -
MATT WELCH- The enemy of your enemy is not your friend; he's a guy who might want to throw you in jail.
"Ever since the 69-year-old conspiratorial activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last week, a
curious new category has appeared among the commentariat—libertarians and/or right-of-center journalists expressing strange new respect for a
Hugo Chavez–admiring scion of the Establishment who has serially fantasized about throwing his political opponents in jail....
- The newly Kennedy-curious are intrigued by the rabble-rouser's potential to disrupt an otherwise rubber-stamped Democratic primary, sure, but also by him having the right enemies—the media, the military-industrial complex, and, most of all, a political class that backed COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates...
- Recasting RFK Jr. as a foe of censorship and potential tamer of government requires ignoring what he has been and imagining things he'll never be. Among a lifetime of eyebrow-raising public activities, Bobby Kennedy's son has repeatedly egged on government to punish those who disagree with his idiosyncratic understandings of science.
Here he is in a September 2014 interview, for example, arguing that billionaire industrialists/philanthropists/political donors Charles Koch and his then-still-alive brother David Koch (both of whom donated to the Reason Foundation over the years)
"should be in jail…enjoying three hots and a cot at The Hague with all the other war criminals" and that politicians who
agree with the Kochs about global warming are "contemptible human beings" of whom he "wish[ed] that there was a law that you can punish them under":
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