If RFKjr wasn’t so clearly a danger (and he is) he would be a fascinating psychological study in how to become mentally adrift. This guy had the ‘best’, well most elitist, possible education, his family support would likely have steered him away from any cult-ish nonsense, he had really no social pressure to become as his has and yet: nutzo conspiracy theory piled upon no-evidence idiotic belief. Where does it come from?? Why is there no retreat? Is there really a particular profit in that sort of shameful behavior? apparently there is -sigh- (from today’s Krugman):
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a crank. His views are a mishmash of right-wing fantasies mixed with remnants of the progressive he once was: Bitcoin boosterism, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, assertions that Prozac causes mass shootings, opposition to U.S. support for Ukraine, but also favorable mention for single-payer health care. But for his last name, nobody would be paying him any attention — and despite that last name, he has zero chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination.
Yet now that Ron DeSantis’s campaign (slogan: “woke woke immigrants woke woke”) seems to be on the skids, Kennedy is suddenly getting support from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter, has endorsed him, while some other prominent tech figures have been holding fund-raisers on his behalf. Elon Musk, who is in the process of destroying what Dorsey built, hosted him for a Twitter spaces event.
