Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already made several high-profile press appearances this week.
on monday he I participated Elon Musk held a live discussion on his Twitter space after his Instagram account was locked last week.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr) June 5, 2023
On the same day he also performed live with Michael Smerkonish. city hall event Broadcast on SiriusXM.
“I’m not going to take guns away from anyone.” @Robert Kennedy Jr Considering how he approaches gun violence in America. pic.twitter.com/qMRrZZBhE2
— Michael Smerconish (@smerconish) June 6, 2023
Both appearances target a surprisingly diverse audience.
Since buying Twitter last year, Musk has been a favorite target of the left. While his association with him will almost certainly provoke the ire of Democrats, it appeals primarily to disgruntled Republicans and independents who have recently returned to Twitter. praise Like RFK, Musk has further cemented himself as a right-wing conspiracy theorist in the eyes of the establishment.
Alternatively, the dialogue with Smerkonish appeals to establishment-minded viewers who probably despise Musk with all their might. He is best known for weekend show On CNN, Smerkonish viewers are likely to stick to party lines on all the issues RFK opposes: the virtues of vaccines, social media censorship, and a series of waking madness.
If these views are “Fatal‘, as corporate media assure us, why would one of their publicists give him the chance to support such a dangerous position? (Related: Biden World Wants Media To Kill Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
From a purely business point of view, why would you want to platform someone your audience can’t stand?
tuesday morning political handbook It seems that there are answers to both questions. This is likely part of a fail-safe campaign strategy to both isolate and boost Mr. Biden. “Yet for now, the plan for the Biden world is to ignore him. ,” writes Politico.
RFK is doing very good polls against Biden.Early polls put him just short of the mark 20%. That’s no small number, but it’s unlikely to generate the overwhelming grassroots momentum needed to break through the institutional support Biden enjoys from the Democratic Party apparatus. As the Playbook rightly points out, tackling RFK head-on only helps fuel that momentum.
Instead, Biden expects the media to do the dirty work for him. “They expect reporters and other Democrats to do their job of informing voters of Kennedy’s established views. “will find out he’s running for the wrong party,” Politico continues.
This is where the corporate media gets the quiet parts out loud. They openly plan to protect the Biden campaign from challengers, and RFK is a key part of the plan. They will support him for the same reason they continue to support Donald Trump: viewers love to hate him. “Even the slightest press scrutiny is his biggest problem,” one of Biden’s 2020 graduates said last night. “If the Democrats see a candidate as an anti-vaccine, anti-offensive weapon, and anti-offensive 2020 election naysayer, the first thing they think of is this,” the agency continued.
This last excerpt is the heart of the matter. Democrats and their media allies want Americans to see RFK as much as possible. They despise him as much as any other figure they’ve been trained to see as evil incarnate, because they want to emphasize all of his views they’ve already instructed viewers to hate.
At the same time, all these positions resent the Democrats’ excesses on coronavirus, censorship and other social issues, but “exhausted‘ said Mr Trump. Even if Mr. DeSantis were the candidate, his cultural warrior stance could alienate some Republicans. (Related: ‘Big Mistake’: Former Trump Official Says He Was ‘Too Woke’, Lack Of ‘Economic Agenda’ Hurts DeSantis)
Many working-class Republican voters were likely Democrats most of their lives prior to the 2016 Trump reshuffle. Their parents and grandparents would proudly vote for the Kennedys of previous generations and happily keep that legacy alive. (Related: 2024’s top Republican nominees prove Trump-fueled Republican reshuffle is real)
Well, there are two scenarios. In one instance, corporate media would crush RFK early in the primary, leaving him with no political funding for the general election.
But if they can’t shatter his credibility, RFK’s chances of finally running as a third-party candidate become very real. In this case, the media lifting him up would act as a buffer around the margins for Biden.
After a year of corporate media agitation against him, the independent RFK would be far more likely to lose support from the Republican candidate than from Biden. That could tilt the tide in key battleground states and give Biden another win by a narrow margin.
As usual, the Democrats and their media allies have a safe plan to consolidate their power long before the election begins in earnest. Republicans will need to match that tenacity if they want their chance next November.
