The RFK Jr. Threat

Jonathan Last argues that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential candidacy is a “fifth column.”

“I could be wrong about this, but I believe that Kennedy will absolutely be speaking at a party convention next summer. But it won’t be the Democratic convention. He’ll have a slot speaking at the Republican convention where he will endorse whoever the Republican nominee is.”

“All of which is why it is best to understand the Kennedy campaign not as an intra-party challenge to Biden, but as a the first phase of a two-stage gauntlet Biden is running against Trumpian populism.”