A poll has found that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – the once-Democrat-now-independent presidential candidate and nephew of JFK, known for his environmental and anti-vaccine activism – is more popular among voters than either Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Joel Kotkin in UnHerd says RFK’s popularity shows that Americans aren’t despairing just yet. Here’s an excerpt.
Amid the muck created by America’s two inadequate presidential frontrunners, green shoots are rising. They may not grow to maturity this year, but the basis for the emergence of better political choices already exists and is showing surprising life.
The majority of voters, particularly independents, do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. That’s no surprise, since three-quarters of the population think that Joe Biden is too old, with the vast majority considering him not mentally up to the job. For his part, Donald Trump has consistently failed to gain approval from more than 42% of the electorate. Astonishingly, the most favoured of all the candidates is neither one of these two, but instead independent candidate Robert Kennedy.
This all reflects a deep political despair. Nearly two-thirds of Americans dislike the political status quo, and barely 4% think the system is working well, a Pew survey found, while 75% feel that national leadership has declined in recent years, according to Rasmussen polling from last month. Crucially, independents still form the largest voting bloc in the U.S., with 43% of adults identifying as such.
But the growing disenchantment could also become a source of hope for a new breed of leaders. In the Republican Party — despite her frankly disingenuous comments about the Civil War — Nikki Haley has emerged as a viable alternative to Trump. Among Democrats, we see the rise to prominence of independent-minded liberals like Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, the onetime progressive heartthrob who works closely on issues with conservatives such as Sen. J.D. Vance.
Like a majority of Americans, Fetterman aggressively supports Israel and wants to staunch the open border. Unsurprisingly, he is denounced by the progressive press for breaking the party line. Similar treatment was accorded to Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, now an independent. The people are willing, unlike Biden and the party establishment, to take on the lunatic Left fringe that now infects the Democratic Party on anything from Israel-Palestine to the impact of the porous border.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A separate poll found that Nikki Haley, who was pipped to second place in Iowa by Ron DeSantis, elicits much lower enthusiasm from her supporters than other Republican candidates: while 88% of Trump’s voters and 68% of DeSantis’s voters are “extremely” or “very” enthusiastic about their candidate, just 39% of Haley’s backers said the same.
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RFK Jr has been badly tarnished over the Israel-Gaza conflict/genocide. Like most frontrunners in the Presidential elections, they are at odds with the vast majority of people who just want the conflict to be stopped.
On another note, I just don’t get that the clearly senile Biden is even considered as a serious candidate. Is he really just held together with sellotape, string and drugs?
The ‘vast majority’ – an abstraction without a quantity.
He is also badly tarnished by his environmental b0££0cks
Added to which, RFK Jr is on the wrong side with the climate nonsense.
In recent years, it’s become clear that some polls are widely inaccurate and/or disingenuously tweaking the results to nudge the narrative. Caveat emptor.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/wef-davos-2024-world-falling-apart-show-must-go-on/5846274
Davos kicks off today.
Introduction: Davos24. The WEF Agenda
As these lines go to print, some 3000 invited guests will flock to the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, from 15 to 19 January. Some 60+ heads of state and many “dignitaries” – most without dignity – wannabe leaders of one kind or another, corporate CEOs, are expected.
It is a meeting of a globalist cartel of unelected “leaders”, who give themselves the right to attempt deciding the future of the world.
This little jamboree should produce some interesting reading over the next few days.
Fifty-four years these barstewards have been plotting.
Jeffrey Epstein used to be a regular attendee. I’m sure they will miss his after parties.
Go on Putin you know the coordinates, do the world a favour – just one Kinzhal missile is all it would take.
Don’t waste more lives and time on Ukraine – after all most of the bastards that started it are here :-
46.8027 degrees North : 9.8360 East.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bypassing-parliament-westminster-royal-prerogative-bombing-yemen/5846433
Bombing Yemen but bypassing Parliament.
When it suits the rule of law means diddly squat, a point I have made countless times on DS.
Royal Prerogative means by Constitution Parliament is excluded. Only the monarch can declare war, for example, Parliament doesn’t have to bother itself to turn up, like it didn’t to listen to Andrew Bridgen tell them about CoVid killer-juice deaths and injuries.
Parliament is an irrelevance: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go. Oliver Cromwell.
“The majority of voters, particularly independents, do not want a Biden-Trump rematch.”
Maybe they want a Trump v somebody else?
About 74 million voted for Trump last time. It is quite clear Trump’s popularity has grown particularly among traditional Democrat voters, so that ‘majority’ is dubious.
Given that Kennedy has not previously run the country, then perhaps he has a lot less baggage than the other two. It wouldn’t last.
If RFK Jr gets anywhere near the White House, he will be taken out by the same organisation which took out his uncle and father. The USA is no more a democracy than the UK.
He’s a very brave man.
Nikki Haley – the bought and paid for by all the wrong people Big Tech – Big business – Big Pharmafia Harmaceutical interests – WEF – Gates and Soros.
She would be a warmongering disaster.