Picking a president was always mostly vibes

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Picking a president was always mostly vibes

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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., best-known for his views on vaccines and how his uncle died, is picking up support in surprising circles.

Why are so many libertarians suddenly fond of RFK Jr.? asks Liz Wolfe at Reason. He’s drawing friendly coverage from National Review writers and Tucker Carlson, too. Before his presidential run, he headlined an event hosted on an Amish family farm. And all that’s happening even though, as Reason’s Matt Welch has ably detailed, many of his policy positions are far from libertarian or conservative.

Kennedy is, after all, a pro-choice Democrat. He’s also terrible on free speech, as Welch documents, opposing First Amendment rights for his political opponents. He says “corporations which deliberately, purposefully, maliciously and systematically sponsor climate lies”—and his view of what counts as a climate lie is what you’d expect from a progressive Democrat—“should be given the death penalty.”