RFK just jumped the Bud Light shark. He writes a long intellectual account of the current turn toward populism, mostly** valid. When he makes the case for himself, he skips the beer and talks instead to people who don’t like beer.
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Unfortunately, the man the working class has turned to, Donald Trump, offers them little beyond bombast and bluster. His massive tax cut benefited mostly the wealthy. He filled his administration with the very creatures of the swamp he promised to drain. The trends that fuel populist anger — income inequality, decline of public services, decaying infrastructure, unaffordable housing, chronic disease, and addiction — all intensified during his term in office.
Even so, his impudent behavior and a few genuinely populist policies such as trade protectionism and border security have cemented his status as an anti-establishment candidate, a status that his endless legal troubles only reinforce.
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Where’s the beer? RFK’s unique argument against Trump is the “virus” holocaust, which CAUSED most of the symptoms he named. Trump infinitely enriched Wall Street and the Tech Tyrants while SHUTTING DOWN AND WATERBOARDING normal business.
DeSantis made exactly the same error when he tried running for president. He totally ignored and omitted the ONE REASON people liked him, which was his strong and EFFECTIVE opposition to the mandates and muzzles and Lucite. He protected Florida from Trump. When he ran, he talked solely to the billionaire donors who wanted to hear shit about woke and CRT and Disney.
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** One exception in the history. He says that many of the 1968 progressives migrated to George Wallace in 1972, who was “directly opposed” to the Kennedy philosophy. Flat wrong. Wallace was a left populist. Like Huey Long and FDR, he was closer to the socialist side of the graph, not the corporatist side. RFK thinks all Southerners are Nazis. Southerners are extremely tired of Yankee bigotry.
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Later puzzle: RFK isn’t getting any traction on Substack. His overly intellectual pieces get a small number of comments, mostly bots or irrelevant. This seems odd since the commercialized antivaxers (stock shorters posing as activists) have HUGE followings on Substack. RFK motivated the antivax movement as a way of coopting the legitimate hatred of torture and imprisonment into support for OCD and Gaia.
I’m not sure how RFK lost the support of the movement he started. Maybe from the Bud Light error, more likely because the movement was coopted again by the stock shorters, who had been PRO-LOCKDOWN in early 2020.
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