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The Left’s Swift Shift After RFK Jr.’s Trump Endorsement
Am Greatness ^ | 25 Aug 2024 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 08/25/2024 7:30:44 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Kennedy’s indictment of his former party, along with his endorsement of Donald Trump, has sent shock waves through the chambers of the self-appointed elite who would rule us.

The thing I admire about contemporary deep-state Democrats is their nimbleness.

This nimbleness was on ostentatious view in the regime response to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement Friday that he was 1) suspending his campaign (at least in battleground states) and 2) throwing his support behind Donald Trump.

The acrid scent of panic might have been expected among the limp-wristed, totalitarian faithful. And, in fact, beneath the amusing cologne of anti-Trump bluster, the panic was indeed discernible.

But there was also that trademark smooth-as-a-suppository (as Saul Bellow put it) suaveness, exemplified, for instance, by former Obama strategist David Axelrod.

“Robert F. Kennedy Sr.,” Axelrod posted shortly after the deed was done, “would have been appalled to see his son cut a deal to drop out for [t]he race and endorse Trump.”

Imagine: someone agrees to drop out of a race at the last minute and support a rival candidate! As the commentator Ned Ryan put it in response to Axelrod’s snippy post: “You suddenly seem offended by someone cutting a deal to drop out of the race and endorse someone else.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: cherylhines; nicoleshanahan; rfkjr; robertkennedyjr
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1 posted on 08/25/2024 7:30:44 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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From RFK Jr:

“In the name of saving democracy,” he notes, “a Democratic Party set itself to dismantle it.” Lacking confidence that its candidate could win a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself. Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of the signatures needed to get on the ballot the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work, and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions. It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail. It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably awful debate performance precipitated a palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election. They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.

2 posted on 08/25/2024 7:34:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

BTTT


3 posted on 08/25/2024 7:37:24 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Rummyfan
The thing I admire about contemporary deep-state Democrats is their nimbleness.

It is easy to appear nimble when you are reading your opponents mail.

4 posted on 08/25/2024 7:37:26 AM PDT by fso301
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I was mesmerized watching the entirety of his speech. He articulately laid out his case for cutting ties with democrats better than anyone I have seen. He is going to draw votes to Trump despite RFK Jr.’s idiosyncrasies.


5 posted on 08/25/2024 7:38:54 AM PDT by johniegrad
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RFK,Jr. really laid the facts out. The truth hurts.


6 posted on 08/25/2024 7:49:22 AM PDT by KittyKares
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He articulately laid out his case for cutting ties with democrats better than anyone I have seen.

Definitely on par with Tulsi Gabbard, who also wrote a book about it.

7 posted on 08/25/2024 7:51:13 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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As the commentator Ned Ryan put it in response to Axelrod’s snippy post: “You suddenly seem offended by someone cutting a deal to drop out of the race and endorse someone else.”

Any sense of irony is a moot point among the fellow travelers. They will simply point out another squirrel for the sleeping to stare at.

8 posted on 08/25/2024 7:53:35 AM PDT by Kudsman (30yr registered Conservative wants a complete Republican House & Senate. Protect the king.)
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Recently, Gabbard was preparing to board a plane with her husband when she found out she had been placed on the domestic threat “Quiet Skies” list, requiring a flight marshal and extra officers to be placed on any plane she boards.

That’s what happens when a person of influence challenges this administration. The full weight of government will be placed on them.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer exposed this years ago when Donald Trump challenged the intelligence community.

“They have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you,”…

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9 posted on 08/25/2024 7:53:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If our votes mattered, "Would our votes be counted as either helping Trump or helping Kamala!)
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10 posted on 08/25/2024 8:04:10 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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The letter from some of his family members is amazing.

The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate demands loyalty to the syndicate over loyalty to family.

Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart, mind and soul.


11 posted on 08/25/2024 8:05:57 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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John Podhoretz
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Of all the repellent Kennedy spectacles of the past 60 years, today's spectacle of Kennedys disavowing other Kennedys for not being good Kennedys is really the kind of false aristocratic creepiness that makes me want to, you know, drive off a bridge.

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12 posted on 08/25/2024 8:09:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: KittyKares

Indeed.


13 posted on 08/25/2024 8:14:40 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: blueunicorn6

That’s because they’re under the control of satan.


14 posted on 08/25/2024 8:15:42 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Rummyfan

John John one-upped his uncle... he killed two women.


15 posted on 08/25/2024 8:30:32 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: KittyKares

The senior generations that lived through polio and iron lung wards are very sympathetic to theRFKJ message of peace and healthy children.They may not delve deeply in other issues but children’s health really resonates.


16 posted on 08/25/2024 8:44:14 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Rummyfan

Since I have never liked any of the Kennedy clan, I find it difficult to say good things about RFK Jr.

But he has become the black sheep of the Kennedy clan and being out of favor with that crowd is to his credit.

Much of the hatred for Trump has to do with the fact that he is a God-fearing Caucasian heterosexual male who is a fighter and don’t take no crap from anyone. In other words an alpha-male.

After listening to RFK Jr’s signature in speech which may come to define him, I think the same could be said of RFK Jr.

It takes a lot of fight to go against your whole clan.

In one sense the Democrats have traded an alpha-male in Kennedy for a wussy ***** like Tampon Timmy.

For the America First crowd, that will just over time keep paying dividends.


17 posted on 08/25/2024 8:50:33 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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What’s so hard about being chosen and favored? When as a Party Member nothing you say is ever questioned or lampooned, and then is branded as “brilliance” or “nimbleness,” life is easy. If they went through one tenth the scrutiny as Trump and his side they would be broken and cowering in a corner.


18 posted on 08/25/2024 8:51:46 AM PDT by Luke21
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John John one-upped his uncle... he killed two women.

If John John wanted to kill himself by flying in conditions he was not experienced enough to handle, that was one thing. But did he have to take his wife and sister-in-law with him?!

19 posted on 08/25/2024 8:55:15 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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Black Jesus and his claque of hopey-changey Communist flying monkeys are scrambling behind the scenes to come up with alternative programming for its latest sock puppet, Willie Brown’s Mattress.


20 posted on 08/25/2024 9:04:31 AM PDT by twister881
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