OPINION:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his presidential run and endorsed Donald Trump and now the Democrats are in a tizzy — as well they should be.
Trump’s one big weakness with some in the conservative camp was his COVID response. RFK’s one big strength with most in the conservative camp was his COVID response. Their alliance is a meeting of mighty forces.
“RFK Jr. as Trump’s health secretary? Here’s what he wants to do,” NBC News wrote.
This is the key that will drive Trump’s numbers even higher.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, appears to be angling for a Cabinet role,” NBC went on. “He has advocated dismantling core functions of federal health agencies.”
Americans are sick and tired of the bureaucrats in the medical agencies who ran roughshod over civil rights — over supposed God-given rights — during the pandemic years.
Trump never mandated shots; he never mandated face masks. But he did shut down the nation for a couple weeks, and he did — in the eyes of many libertarian-leaning conservatives and small government-advocating conservatives and just plain old individualists — give Anthony Fauci, as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, far too much stage power to bleat out his silly, ever-changing and utterly unclear “science” that turned into policy that turned into mandates that turned into tyrannical lockdowns. He did let Francis Collins, as director of the National Institutes of Health, and Deborah Birx, as COVID coordinator, and Robert Redfield, as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — he let all of them have a massive say in how COVID policy should flow forth from the federal level. It was under Trump’s White House watch that the media took the so-called “science” of these medical bureaucrats and hyped the frenzy and used any opportunity that presented to attack those who dissented or disagreed with the Democrats who wanted to seize control.
Trump is not to blame for how the media and medical bureaucrats and Democrats and Big Pharma played on the fear of the people to steal away individual liberties and censor social media and attack religious freedom — shutting the churches, for goodness sake! — and closing schools for months and months and destroying the economy.
Trump fought all along the Democrats’ tyrannical ways to keep choice in the picture; to keep individual choice at the helm. But he did shut down the country for a couple weeks, and he did speed through development of a shot-billed-as-a-vaccine that the Democrats under Joe Biden’s administration then used as a pocketbook-padding product they forced into the arms of many who did not want it — and for that, some in conservative circles remained critical of Trump.
But if COVID was Trump’s one weakness, it’s RFK’s huge strength.
“RFK Jr. is a … Radical Left Liberal … totally Anti-Gun, an Extreme Environmentalist who makes the Green New Scammers look Conservative, a Big Time Taxer and Open Border Advocate and Anti-Military/Vet,” Trump wrote on Truth And Reconciliation few months ago.
OK. Yes. But he’s also a Big Time critic of Big Pharma and a Big Time critic of Government Censorship. He’s the founder of Children’s Health Defense, a group that’s challenged the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency authorization approval of Covid shots in December 2020 and that also sued Rutgers University for its shot mandate. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Children’s Health Defense legal appeals in June, but the point is: RFK’s making the right fight on medical choice. He’s on the right side of COVID history.
He also cares about free speech, something the Democrat Party has cavalierly tossed to the side in recent years.
“What most alarms me isn’t how the Democrat Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates,” RFK said in recent remarks. “What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control and weaponization of the federal agencies. … But governments and oppressors don’t censor lies. They don’t fear lies. They fear the truth and that’s what they censor.”
That’s music to any patriotic American’s ears.
So, too, is the notion of unity.
In a country that’s been torn at its foundations since 2009, as Barack Obama, then-president, famously promised to do — it’s high time this nation get back to the time when both political parties actually cared about the citizens and the Constitution and liberty more than they do personal power.
Democrats at the convention in Chicago spoke a great deal about joy and freedom and how their pick for president, Kamala Harris, would be the leader of joy and freedom. But those are hollow words, devoid of specifics.
Trump’s got the proven record on returning power to the people and bolstering the ability of individuals to run their own lives and prosper their own families. His one stumbling block was COVID. Now comes RFK, a flaming liberal but with a proven record of freedom when it comes to medical choice.
The timing couldn’t be better.
The alliance couldn’t be stronger.
RFK in a Trump administration, in charge of America’s health policy — it’s a clear win for American liberty.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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