As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve never been impressed with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. I first became aware of him due to his ludicrous overstatements about global warming and falsely claiming that George W. Bush didn’t win the 2004 presidential election. Indeed, he was previously lefty scumbag on many (perhaps most) issues, had more than a whiff of fringe lunacy about him, and (through no fault of his own) I find him hard to listen to, due to his spasmodic dysphonia. And I still think he’s more wrong than right on the vaccine-autism link.
But the Democrat Media Complex seems to have conspicuously hated RFK, Jr. since he suggested that link back in 2005. That hatred only kicked into higher gear when Kennedy had the unmitigated gall that his ancestral party might be willing to live up to its name and let him primary Slow Joe Biden. No such luck. The DNC opened their vast bag of dirty tricks to keep Kennedy from even competing in the 2024 Democratic Presidential primary, and thus making sure nothing would expose Slow Joe’s cognitive decline until it was too late for a real primary. Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump was a key factor in winning over a certain type of old school liberal who felt alienated from the modern Democratic Party’s increasing authoritarian, social justice-infected nature, but was still wary of Trump.
All that doesn’t necessarily make him a good Director of the Department of Health and Human Services. But damn, given how viciously Democrats have been attacking Kennedy on everything from CDC firings to vaccine policy makes me think that Kennedy may be over the target. It’s fascinating to see Democrats attack someone who literally grew up in the Democrat Party harder than they’ve attacked anyone else in Trump47’s cabinet.
The reasons for this are probably varied. One is the absolute refusal of the social justice left to admit that their full-bore 2020 Flu Manchu freakout, with its lockdowns, vaccine mandates (especially for children) and thunderous invocation of that most holy of deities, THE SCIENCE, were in any way mistakes or overreactions. The Democrat Party has come to represent the entirety of the ruling class, and Kennedy’s exposure of the lies and data manipulation carried out in the name of fighting Covid raises the specter of people actually being held to account for their self-dealing lies, and that Simply Will Not Do.
The second reason Democrats absolutely hate Kennedy is his documentation of how Big Pharma has bought control of the Democrats. Here’s a Rumble interview Jordan Peterson did with Kennedy on a variety of topics, including how Big Pharma (specifically Merck, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKlein, and either Novartis or Novo Nordisk) were committing crimes, capturing regulatory agencies and how ObamaCare got the Democrats in bed with them.
(I had previously embedded that video (or an excerpt from it) here, but, what do you know, YouTube deleted that video.)
Kennedy may still be wrong about a great many things, but the more viciously he’s attacked, the more convinced I am that Big Pharma has fatally compromised both medical science and our unworthy political elites.
When you’re receiving this much flak, I have to assume that you’re over the target…
Tags: 2024 Presidential Race, coronavirus, Democrats, Department of Health and Human Services, FDA, GlaxoSmithKlein, Jordan B. Peterson, Media Watch, Merck, ObamaCare, Pfizer, Regulation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Social Justice Warriors, Trump Cabinet, vaccine, vaccine mandate
Agency capture: when a regulatory agency acts in the interest of the industry it regulates, rather than the public welfare.
Adam Smith famously stated that, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” Both regulator and the regulated industry have a common interest in their “trade”. There is no benefit to either if it is regulated out of existence and so a gentleman’s agreement is usually reached whereby the two of them delineate and defend their sphere of influence.
If this resembles “corporate fascist collusion” it’s because that is what invariably results and if RFK Jr. has any redeeming quality it is his seeming opposition to agency capture/corporate fascism. It is unlikely that a Kennedy would embrace a free.market solution to this conundrum but it is equally improbable that he is a cryptocommunist.
Perhaps that is why he has shown some inconsistency in his public pronouncements. He instinctively knows “corporate fascist collusion” is abhorrent but cannot clearly articulate an alternative.
Will this make him less effective as the Director of HHS? Yes but it is not a disqualification for the office and is preferable to what we are replacing.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. must be right over the target. Big Pharma’s most favored U.S. Senator, champagne socialist Bernie Sanders, is calling for RFK, Jr. to resign as HHS Secretary. Sanders has been joined by Senator Schumer of New York and most other Big Pharma stooges in the U.S. Senate.
The “inconsistencies” noted in RFK, Jr.’s lines of attack are actually a reflection of the many different attacks launched against him and his principles. Big Pharma and their money grubbing retinue have been attacking RFK, Jr. from every possible angle in an effort to get something that sticks. RFK, Jr. has to respond to a vast array of different attacks and it is a wonder that he can maintain any consistency at all.
Roger Kimball referred to Thursday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing as the “Pfizer Tribunal”. An apt description of the proceedings, and Kimball noted that the attacks on RFK, Jr. are a proxy war against President Trump:
‘The Issue Is Never the Issue: Senate Hearing Turns Into Proxy War’
“RFK Jr.’s Senate grilling wasn’t about COVID or the CDC—it was a proxy battle over power, Trump, and who controls the narrative.”
By Roger Kimball – September 7, 2025
“‘RFK Jr.’s Senate grilling wasn’t about COVID or the CDC—it was a proxy battle over power, Trump, and who controls the narrative.'”
–Roger Kimball
Politicians lust after power?! Who knew?
RFKJr may be wrong, but he’s being wrong in the right way – insisting on public test results and transparency, ending eternal-emergency authorizations with seekritsquirrel terms, and firing approval board folks with independence questions, are all correct even if autism is caused by beets.
Steve
Hmmm, tried to send you the link for Dr. Peterson’s interview with RFK Jr but the post didn’t work. Found it readily on YouTube, and it’s quite interesting.