There’s No Such Thing as an RFK Jr. Voter
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a man of many misguided ideas. He thinks that vaccinations are harmful, that Wi-Fi radiation causes cancer, and that chemicals in the water supply are producing gender dysphoria. Most political commentators do not share these ideas, but they have implicitly adopted another of the presidential hopeful’s questionable notions: that Kennedy’s voters care about Kennedy’s ideas and are supporting him because of them.
“RFK Jr. says things—whether about vaccines causing autism, SSRIs leading to school shootings, or the CIA killing his dad and uncle—that are described by mainstream media as disinformation and ideas that are simply beyond the pale,” the political commentator Bari Weiss wrote. “But his high polling suggests that many Americans are tuning in to what he has to say. And perhaps they think that we have drawn the lines of debate too narrowly.”
Other analysts have adopted this reading in making the case for experts to publicly debate Kennedy and his proposed policies. “If. “If you don’t think he should be publicly debated, you need some other theory of how the curious can be persuaded away from his ideas,” the conservative columnist Ross Douthat .
