LAST YEAR, LONGTIME FOX NEWS PERSONALITY Judge Andrew Napolitano (born 1950) interviewed conspiracy-minded economist Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954), who claimed that Trump confirmed to him one of the most fantastical articles of faith of this cult: that he would have a hard time releasing the full records of the JFK assassination, because “if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn’t have released it either.”
“What did they show him?” Judge Napolitano marveled. “JFK’s brains blown out?”
The legend: “They” do this for every incoming president, to keep them in line. Sachs affirmed, “You know, it was said by one person that after the Kennedy assassination there has been no president: They have only been factotums of the system since then.” That makes Donald Trump quite the hero, standing up to them: no “factotum of the system” he.
This is not rational stuff. And this is where Josh Cohen’s dynamite insight comes in. The Kennedy cult has always had two wings. There’s the “inoffensive … we-choose-to-go-to-the-moon” wing— the people who keep slating Kennedys for offices, even if they’re not the best people for the job. (Cohen points out that RFK Jr. himself, long after he started down his anti-vax rabbit hole, “received serious consideration as a potential replacement for Hillary Clinton” as senator when she became secretary of state.) The second wing is the conspiracy stuff.
Cohen points out how all the other Kennedys, save Robert Jr., steered clear of that malign folderol about their relatives’ assassinations. That gifted RFK Jr. with a powerful monopoly, as the only bearer of the sacred name able to harness its terrible energy; he alone possessed the power to attract all those who believed in the Deep State monsters out to destroy everything good and true. That nestles him within the MAGA worldview with the neatness of a jigsaw puzzle piece popping into place.
Normal people noted with satisfaction that all the Kennedys got together to denounce their relative for his conspiracism. For those inclined to believe in things like QAnon, that’s RFK’s best feature—not a bug. Those other Kennedys were frauds. RFK Jr., the only one with the courage to keep the faith, was Camelot’s true heir. That is his Kennedy magic: that he alone can defeat the Unspeakable.
All that unspeakable, peer-reviewed science. All those unspeakable vaccines, which he calls a “holocaust.” The unspeakable scourge of 5G, a plot to “control our behavior”; the “plandemic”—RFK Jr. now proudly admits that he helped fund the film claiming that there was no COVID epidemic, until mad scientists conjured it up in order to control the sheeple. I mean, they’re just evil that way: Look at how they killed his uncle and dad.