As untold numbers of Democrats across the fruited plain gnashed their teeth on Friday, and the left-wing media lost their collective minds, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. effectively not only exited the race; he also threw his support to Donald Trump. Oh, the humanity!
While Kennedy said his name would remain on the ballot in some states, he also said he was in the process of removing it from the ballot in swing states where polls show he would hurt Trump more than Kamala Harris.
The mere thought of the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy supporting a Republican for president was surrealistic, not all that long ago. Turns out all it took was for the Democrat Party to move so far to the left, that its presidential and vice presidential nominees combine to create the most radical presidential ticket in the history of the country — by miles.
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George Washington University Law School professor and Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley argued in a new NY Post column that Kennedy's withdrawal and subsequent endorsement of Trump "resonated with many long-time Democrats who have found themselves estranged from the party." (Emphasis, mine)
"While Kennedy remains an independent, it is a cautionary tale that is being missed in the 'joy' theme of the Democratic National Convention. The fact is that new Republicans are often not the product of ideology and association but anxiety and exclusion. Democrats make Republicans."
Turley then quoted part of Kennedy's Friday speech:
I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960 and back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights. The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars. We were the party of labor, of the working class.
The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the full world against big money interests and corporate power. True to its name, it was the party of democracy.
So, what happened? Kennedy continued:
As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag and Big Money.
"Gone forever is the old Democratic Party of FDR, JFK … even Bill Clinton," Kennedy mused. His family's Democrat Party is no more.
As Turley noted, "Kennedy has not become a Republican but rather joined the roughly half of Americans now identifying as independents. While this country is solidly under the hold of a duopoly of power in the two main parties," Turley added, "only 25 percent of the country identify as Democrats, and 25 percent as Republicans."
Returning to his theme of "Democrats make Republicans," Turley said, "the unrelenting identity politics and claims of defending democracy (while opposing democratic choice) only reaffirmed for many that there is no longer a big tent in the party of Roosevelt and Kennedy."
One need not go all the way back to the 1960s and John F. Kennedy to find truth in Turley's words.
In later years, Democrats like Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Speaker Tip O'Neill, Sens. Scoop Jackson and Walter Mondale, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, before he was primaried by the Democrat Party — only to promptly run as an independent and win reelection — bore zero resemblance to today's far-left Democrat lawmakers.
Turley summed it up, nicely"
"For Kennedy, it was all too much 'and, most sadly … in the name of saving Democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth.'
There is little 'joy' in that."
Meanwhile, the Democrat Party's gaslighting of America continues, unabated.
The question is, will enough independents and swing voters get it to keep the most radical presidential ticket in America the hell out of the Oval Office?
If not, God help us. I mean that.
