Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday issued an emotional endorsement of President Donald Trump. A conversation with Tucker Carlson To discuss why he did so and the ongoing political “realignment” that seems to have made this decision almost inevitable.
Carlson began his remarks by telling Kennedy that the decision wasn't a surprise: “While we may disagree on specific issues, I have noticed a consistent theme in both of your lives, which is that you both spent most of your lives, in both of your cases your entire lives, in the American ruling class, decided that it was corrupt, and took great risks to speak out against it.”
Kennedy acknowledged that many people, including some of his supporters, may have been shocked to learn last week that he was suspending his campaign to focus on the Republican candidate, but noted that such surprise was more likely the result of a misunderstanding of the nature of the current political climate and where Democrats stand within it.
“I think there's been about four or five political realignments throughout American history,” Kennedy told Carlson, “and I think we're experiencing one of them right now.”
Kennedy emphasized that the Democratic Party as it was is gone, and what remains, led by the Harris “machine,” is an anti-democratic force synonymous with corporatism, military adventurism and censorship that would have been unrecognizable to both his father, Robert F. Kennedy Sr., and his uncle, President John F. Kennedy.
“A major, fundamental restructuring has taken place.”
Kennedy said the Democratic Party, which left in October 2023, is in part “horribly altered by the corrupt blend of state and corporate power that is happening right now in Washington, D.C., where our democracy has actually been corrupted by industries that have taken over our regulatory agencies.”
This is affecting the party's approach to environmental issues, for example.
Kennedy noted that Democrats have lowered the priorities of protecting habitat, protecting wildlife and “getting toxins out of our kids,” and instead focused on “one environmental issue: carbon orthodoxy.”
Kennedy, who has worked as an environmental lawyer for decades, has long
Claimed There are far better ways to help the environment than geoengineering and carbon sequestration. Deadly In recent years, the Biden-Harris administration has provided huge subsidies to so-called green energy.
The Democratic Party's obsession with emissions “ends up benefiting the oil companies, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs with offshore wind, carbon capture, $100 billion carbon capture projects, and that's really just dispossessing the middle class,” Kennedy told Carlson.
“There's been a massive, fundamental restructuring, but it's not just about that,” Kennedy continued.
“They are now the party of censorship.”
Kennedy further suggested that Democrats “cling to the illusion” that they are still democratic and that they are the “good people” who will fight off barbarians, even as various branches of government have been subsumed and transformed into “puppets for corporate interests.”
Kennedy suggested even the institution of the presidency was at stake: Democrats who vote for Harris, as they did for Joe Biden, would be endorsing the “organization” surrounding a candidate rather than an individual.
“When you ask Democrats, 'Do you really think it's a good idea to pick someone who's not available for interviews?' and they say, 'Well, you're picking the people around her, you're picking the institution,'” Kennedy said. “I have zero confidence in that institution, which is the institution that's leading us into World War III with neo-cons like Antony Blinken, the people who have masterminded censorship from inside the White House.”
U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana last week granted Kennedy permission to sue, accusing the Biden-Harris administration of forcing social media companies to suppress and outright censor content, including free speech.
Kennedy cited the censorship detailed in Doughty's ruling and the actions of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Claims “Freedom of speech, especially when it comes to misinformation and hate speech in our democracy, is not guaranteed” in 2022, he said, citing the modern Democratic Party's censorship reflex and the party's distrust of the American people.
“They are now the party of censorship,” Kennedy said, stressing that democracy and censorship are “totally incompatible.”
“The first step towards totalitarianism is always censorship,” he told Carlson. “We've never looked back in history and said that the people who were censoring speech were good people. They've always been bad people. … We know that they're the ones who are ultimately going to crack the whip on all of us and be the ones who control us.”
Kennedy noted that unlike Harris, Trump “cares deeply and is very informed about what's happening to kids and chronic diseases” and that he is “firmly committed to ending censorship and ensuring free speech.”
On war and interventionism, Kennedy again set Trump apart from his Democratic rivals. Kennedy told Carlson that he had previously viewed Trump as “the guy who put John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in office,” but after meeting with Trump, he realized the former president was “really disillusioned with them, to say the least.”
Going forward, Kennedy said he would work hard to “get Trump elected” and suggested that if the American people re-elect the Republican Party, he would help “select the person who will run our government.”
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