Simply because the Harris/Walz marketing campaign was in search of a lift from the content-free Democratic Nationwide Conference final week, actual drama broke out that pulled the nation’s consideration again towards Republican candidate Donald Trump. Rumors had been swirling for days that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. may droop his unbiased run for the White Home and endorse Donald Trump and on Friday he did simply that.
In his highly effective speech explaining the choice, RFK, Jr. made it clear that suspending his run was tough, as was leaving a Democratic Get together that has been virtually synonymous with the identify “Kennedy” for a lot of a long time. On each points RFK, Jr. defined that he was guided by ideas and values over get together orientation and the fluff that has more and more come to characterize American electoral politics.
It appears the extra “polarized” a lot of American society turns into over which political get together they assist, the extra the remainder of us proceed to see much less and fewer distinction between the 2 in terms of precise coverage. Each events assist the warfare/welfare state. Each pursue insurance policies resulting in poverty and warfare as a substitute of peace and prosperity. Each are deluded into believing that the Federal Reserve can successfully handle the financial system whereas we amass unimaginable ranges of debt.
People are in search of authenticity and politicians who put ideas above political events and that’s precisely what RFK, Jr. did final Friday. In his speech on the Trump rally, RFK served up extreme criticisms of the Democrats for his or her embrace of countless warfare.
He mentioned: “Judging by the bellicose, belligerent speech final night time in Chicago, we are able to assume that President Harris will probably be an enthusiastic advocate for this and different neocon army adventures. President Trump says he’ll reopen negotiations with President Putin and finish the warfare in a single day as quickly as he turns into President. This alone would justify my assist for his marketing campaign.”
It was a well-aimed blow on the Biden/Harris Administration, which pretends to be in search of peace whereas pouring gasoline on the quite a few conflicts abroad.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed in her speech to the DNC that Vice President Harris is “working tirelessly” towards a ceasefire in Gaza actually because the Biden/Harris Administration introduced one other large cargo of bombs for use by the Israeli army to kill extra Palestinians.
What can we hope for in RFK, Jr.’s daring transfer? For one, we must always hope that popping out in favor of ideas as a substitute of hole get together identification can cut back the ability of political events altogether. Already within the Republican Get together we’re seeing a “new guard” emerge that is able to break with the drained neocon stranglehold on the get together.
So does RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Trump on ideas quite than events imply that we lastly have a “peace ticket” to assist? The brief reply is “no,” we don’t have a peace ticket. Many people who hoped that the primary Trump presidency could be that peace ticket had been disenchanted to see the likes of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo litter the Administration. There’s at all times the possibility of a repeat of those errors. And neither Trump nor RFK appear reliably in favor of an finish to the slaughter in Gaza.
So no, this isn’t a “peace ticket.” However not less than with what we have now seen this previous week with RFK and Trump, we get the sensation that peace is on the menu. It’s a begin.
