by Joseph Ford Cotto, American Thinker:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has become the rare figure who draws as much raw hostility from Democrats as Donald Trump ever has. That fact alone is remarkable.
Democrats once celebrated Kennedy as the scion of a legendary political dynasty. They now treat him as a menace to society. His break from the blue ranks last year, and the populist movement he has built, mirrors Trump’s earlier rebellion against establishment Republicans. That similarity explains why both men are uniquely loathed by Democrat insiders.
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The fury stems not just from Kennedy’s decision to leave the Democrat party, but from how he left. He accused party leaders of rigging 2024 presidential primaries against him, echoing the language Trump used in 2016 and 2020 about elections being stacked against outsiders.
Those accusations landed hard with many Americans who already believed Democrat elites, at best, manipulate the rules to protect their favorites and, at worst, utilize election fraud. By later considering a unity ticket with Trump, Kennedy didn’t simply criticize Democrat leadership. He rejected its authority outright.
That is why Kennedy, now history’s most powerful Health and Human Services secretary, stands in a category almost by himself. Like Trump, he represents a brand of populism that does not map neatly onto traditional left-right divisions. His campaign drew in voters alienated by Democrat elitism, people less concerned with ideology than with authenticity and choice.
That unpredictability terrifies blue strategists, who, most charitably put, prefer elections to be controlled exercises in coalition management. Kennedy’s rise signaled that many voters want an alternative to being told what options they’re allowed to have.
Kennedy has also made himself radioactive among Democrats by confronting their most sensitive hypocrisies. He has called out censorship, denouncing collusion between government officials and media companies to silence his views. In doing so, he placed himself alongside Trump in framing free speech as a cause under siege. His lawsuits against corrupt bargains highlight how undemocratic these arrangements truly are, darkening blue resentment toward him.
The deepest offense came when Kennedy openly questioned the “scientific” consensus surrounding vaccines and other health policies. To Democrats, whose coalition increasingly leans on credentialed professionals and “educated” white-collar voters, this skepticism amounted to heresy. Kennedy was no longer simply debating policy. He was challenging the authority of the very institutions that anchor their worldview. For many in the party’s cultural base, that could never be forgiven.
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