Or he wanted to be the chance for the Democrat party to course correct. Fat chance, that. But I'm pretty sure he knows they're going off the deep end, and they might just go scorched earth in desperation.
That is, if he truly isn't a 100% foreign interest puppet.
I'm just glad he didn't do something super sketchy and knife Trump in the back.
It could have gone either way there for a while...and still could, to be fair. What a weird campaign. I like some of what he stands for (primarily the big pharma stuff), but what an absolute chaotic joke of a campaign. Sure, some was due to interference, but it also wasn't managed well. And it was clear something was going to happen, but depending on how/when he dropped out, he could have really hurt/helped either side. Very weird stuff. Our elections have been super...interesting, recently.
Technically, if Trump puts him in a cabinet position, he could do far more damage by knifing him in the back while Trump's in office, than he can do now.
See: damn near the entirety of Trump's previous cabinet and Gen. Milley, who explicitly committed treason and a military coup.
Personally, I'm willing to take that risk. I think RFK brings some interesting things to the table and, if put in the correct position - which Trump has hinted at - he could be great. It's sad when a liberal is a more appealing pick than a lot of people who Trump surrounded himself with last time around.
In the right contexts, I have no problem with RFK. But, of course, Trump still needs to be careful.
As a self-avowed "American Liberal Revolutionary", Liberals are always useful when deployed politically for their acidic purposes against corrupt and entrenched institutions. That is precisely their wheelhouse.
Conservatives in general tend to be bad at aggressive institutional reform because it's contrary to their nature. Liberals are great at it, when kept within the proper boundaries. Optimally, their boundaries should be political, moral, and legal; but hierarchical would do in a pinch too since Trump can fire them.
At their core, a true Liberal is an anti-institutionalist. Now, I'm not even saying that RFK is a genuine Liberal (Barry Goldwater is more of a genuine Liberal than RFK, who is merely an old Progressive with a specific agenda)
I think the real benefit of Trump, and the only redeeming quality he has for personelle, is that he isn't afraid to shit-can people at the drop of a hat when they are either not preforming, not getting along, or no longer needed for his objectives. The Deep State endlessly complained about it, and were horrified that they had to compete for his attention. But it actually kept them in line, until his recruitment process was subverted. Hopefully he doesn't catch a bad case of the retard and fire Steve Bannon again.
I don't think he went into it wanting Trump to win. In the speech he mentions after the assassination attempt Trump reached out to talk to him. I think there was something that went out that the Dem side declined to talk to him when he reached out to them.
At that point he really only had one choice if he wanted his ideas heard.
This kinda goes leans in the theory he always wanted Trump to win and was running a spoiler campaign to prevent some never Trumpers voting Democrat.
Or he wanted to be the chance for the Democrat party to course correct. Fat chance, that. But I'm pretty sure he knows they're going off the deep end, and they might just go scorched earth in desperation.
That is, if he truly isn't a 100% foreign interest puppet.
I'm just glad he didn't do something super sketchy and knife Trump in the back.
It could have gone either way there for a while...and still could, to be fair. What a weird campaign. I like some of what he stands for (primarily the big pharma stuff), but what an absolute chaotic joke of a campaign. Sure, some was due to interference, but it also wasn't managed well. And it was clear something was going to happen, but depending on how/when he dropped out, he could have really hurt/helped either side. Very weird stuff. Our elections have been super...interesting, recently.
"May you live in interesting times".
Technically, if Trump puts him in a cabinet position, he could do far more damage by knifing him in the back while Trump's in office, than he can do now.
See: damn near the entirety of Trump's previous cabinet and Gen. Milley, who explicitly committed treason and a military coup.
Personally, I'm willing to take that risk. I think RFK brings some interesting things to the table and, if put in the correct position - which Trump has hinted at - he could be great. It's sad when a liberal is a more appealing pick than a lot of people who Trump surrounded himself with last time around.
In the right contexts, I have no problem with RFK. But, of course, Trump still needs to be careful.
As a self-avowed "American Liberal Revolutionary", Liberals are always useful when deployed politically for their acidic purposes against corrupt and entrenched institutions. That is precisely their wheelhouse.
Conservatives in general tend to be bad at aggressive institutional reform because it's contrary to their nature. Liberals are great at it, when kept within the proper boundaries. Optimally, their boundaries should be political, moral, and legal; but hierarchical would do in a pinch too since Trump can fire them.
At their core, a true Liberal is an anti-institutionalist. Now, I'm not even saying that RFK is a genuine Liberal (Barry Goldwater is more of a genuine Liberal than RFK, who is merely an old Progressive with a specific agenda)
I think the real benefit of Trump, and the only redeeming quality he has for personelle, is that he isn't afraid to shit-can people at the drop of a hat when they are either not preforming, not getting along, or no longer needed for his objectives. The Deep State endlessly complained about it, and were horrified that they had to compete for his attention. But it actually kept them in line, until his recruitment process was subverted. Hopefully he doesn't catch a bad case of the retard and fire Steve Bannon again.
I don't think he went into it wanting Trump to win. In the speech he mentions after the assassination attempt Trump reached out to talk to him. I think there was something that went out that the Dem side declined to talk to him when he reached out to them.
At that point he really only had one choice if he wanted his ideas heard.
Raz0rfist actually argued he was a spoiler candidate against Trump by trying to pull votes away from him, in the same way Richard Mahooney spoiled the 2002 governor's race.
Raz0rfist has been pretty on-the-ball with calling out this shit, but so has Richard Baris who seems to think it's pretty genuine.