I do hope they’ll deny him a place on the debate stage. That’s something they can do, openly and for good cause. It’s clear he has no chance to be the Dem nominee and that he’ll bolt for a third-party spoiler run with the Greens or No Labels once he loses in the primaries.
Them again, these are establishment Dems we’re talking about. Oh well.
Well there is no debate stage for the Democratic primaries, so…not an issue.
I forgot. Incumbent Dem candidate (may it stay that way). Thank goodness for small favours.
Next time he’s ill and he goes to a doctor … well, I hope that doctor has a sense of humour and and a sense of natural justice.
“This will cure your problem but, of course, you cannot trust me when I say that!”
Just to add to that litany, Arnold Schwarzenegger is now (relatively speaking) an elder statesman.
They sure don’t have to tolerate him, or the party affiliation is meaningless. Every time he opens his mouth they could issue a statement “RFKjr does not speak on behalf of the Democratic Party. His ideas are wrong, they cause real harm in the world, and we do not condone anything he says.”
If DeSantis suddenly claimed to be suppressing gays in the name of the democratic party, you can bet they’d be issuing all kinds of “no no no” messages.
They aren’t. When he testified before the House recently, 102 House Democrats signed a letter asking for him to be uninvited. Debbie Wasserman Shultz called his comments disgusting. Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly told him “You are here for cynical reasons to be used politically by that side of the aisle to embarrass the current president of the United States. And you’re an enabler in that effort today. And it brings shame on a storied name that I revere.” And, when the story came out about RFK, Jr. claiming the COVID virus targeted white people, the DNC chair tweeted, “These are deeply troubling comments and I want to make clear that they do not represent the views of the Democratic Party.”
He’s also repeating Putin statements on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It just doesn’t work like that — Lyndon LaRouche ran “as a Democrat” every four years 
Isn’t this basically a result of the system not being designed for political parties, since most of the US’s founders didn’t want them to be a thing in their shiny new country. So there isn’t anything really baked-in to allow parties to control who claims to be a member or to represent them - and a whole jury-rigged party system grew on top of the original system.
Coalitions were going to form and it was naive to believe otherwise.
As much as people decry the two-party system, it isn’t that big of a difference, effectively, from multi-party systems. It’s just that multi-party systems have to form coalitions after elections to get a majority whereas two-party systems form them before. In either case, they sometimes accept kooks in order to get a majority.
That said, usually the kooks in a two-party system have to moderate themselves to fit within the party even if it’s on the fringes, though RFK Jr. doesn’t appear to have gotten the memo.
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