Thank you Unherd for this interview while the rest of the UK and most of the US media buries its head pretending RFK Jr is not a presidential candidate when his is probably the most enthralling US candidacy for years.

Polling 20% after 3 weeks makes him a severe headache for Biden and if he keeps growing at this rate the DNC’s options of just preempting the primary process or finding a way to disqualify RFK Jr could massively backfire. And their minions, never mind Biden of course, won’t dare debate him – he knows his history and the system backwards so the DNC and their puppet / brainwashed media can rely only on smears and dirty tricks to diminish him.

RFK Jr has huge cross-party, revolutionary appeal. He is an honest man of great courage and I wish him well.

On 4th April, I ended a comment on your interview with Jacob Siegel with: “Freddie – journalistic coup of the year would be an interview with RFK Jr now he has just declared.”
I don’t know if that contributed in any way to bringing this about, but I want to thank you for this interview. You asked some excellent, penetrating, relevant questions.
Whilst I don’t agree with him on everything (for example, nuclear energy, though I will ponder the insurance point!), I trust everybody can see the quality and honesty of this man, that his intentions are noble and moral, and that he is more than suited to be the president of the US. The rest of the world badly needs him to be the president – does anybody really want to see a repeat of a race between two divisive and corrupt presidents who have been proven failures and one of whom has brought us to the brink of armageddon?
If you haven’t read his page-turning book yet (‘The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health’), please do. It was the book that ‘red-pilled’ me last year and led me to read scores of other books, papers and articles on the subject. It’s no wonder that the establishment and Davos elites find him so dangerous (like Socrates corrupting the youth of Athens!).
I look forward to the proposed second interview. Thank you, Freddie, and my best wishes and sincere hopes, Bobby, for the primaries and the presidency.

He will be hated by the existing Democratic machine, the major media outlets, diverse lobby groups, federal agencies, and various corporate concerns. I suspect that Elite America ‘cannot handle the truth’.
Look at what they did to Trump – and he was nowhere as challenging to the status quo as RFK Jr.

I liked most of it. He certainly knows the history of the security state and the administrative state going out of control. I also like what he has to say about screwed up state of our modern economy. There is one thing I have to massively disagree with him on, nuclear power. I’m sorry but the real world runs on the principal of making do with what you have and the only viable path in the future of supplying a lot of power with little carbon emission is nuclear. Maybe one day we will get our electricity from safe, clean cold fusion power plants, but today is not that day. Tomorrow does not look too promising either.

Very good interview and quite a coup! Interestingly, his message is not so far removed from ‘drain the swamp’, put forward by a certain other presidential hopeful; but much, much more articulate.
Given the myriad vested interests he says he will confront, together with his family history, I do feel worried for his personal safety should he be in with a chance of winning the Democratic nomination.

Fascinating interview, I wish him luck.

I have lived here in the US for 18 years but never had the desire to apply for citizenship, happy just being a green card holder.
I will apply to vote for this man.

RFKjnr – future president of the USA – or BUST !

RFK is the only current candidate fit to lead the US. Question is: will “they” let him?

This man makes very good sense.
And another thing: His family background goes far beyond manifesting a bold centrosity, such as his father and his uncle did. He strikes me as a potentially excellent President.
As a 71-year-old American, I would probably vote for him. I would love it if he could somehow manhandle the Republican nomination away from the trump dysfunction.
Robert’s centrism is very timely and refreshing, just now. He has a lot of common sense, which appeals to conservatives. He also has a lot of experience in exploring the actual manifestations of politics. His experience in litigation shines brightly in a manner that is persuasive, practical and still appropriately ideological at the same time.
His unabashed truth-telling, is, however, dangerous. It is the same boldly honest character trait that provoked murderers to assassinate his uncle and his father.
Were he to run for President, he would be taking a very big risk toward suffering the same fate as our former President Kennedy and our former Attorney General Kennedy.
His rough, gravelly voice would also be a negative factor. With his mafiaesque grumble, many Americans would find that as excuse to concentrate on his speech rather than the content of his character and his message.
Even so, with all that said, this never-trumper would vote for him. Godspeed, Robert!

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. A leader with clear vision. We’d forgotten what such a man looks and sounds like.

This guy talks a lot of sense and would appear to be a threat to some powerful interests. Shame if something happened to him…

Quite a mish-mash of some good with some nonsense. He’ll has a touch point though for many, but the question is whether that adds up to a coherent coalition that’d generate sufficient votes?
Not unsurprisingly he’s got a ‘rose tinted’ view of his Uncle too. Yes his Uncle showed true Statemanship during the Cuban Crisis holding back his Chief of Staffs desire to invade and escalate, but he also started the drift in Vietnam and he conveniently doesn’t refer to that. He also forgets the administration in 62 traded the Jupiters because they were obsolete and Polaris was changing deterrence anyway. The missile crisis was a ‘political’ not a ‘strategic’ issue and his viewpoint seems to miss that a bit. JFK was adamant about defending Berlin too. So feels like he’s quite selective in his recollections.
A statement like ‘do we let these countries deal with their neighbours’, implying ‘yes we do, not our problem’, music to the ears of Putin & Xi’s and would send a huge message to other countries round the world about which way to lean. Massively naive.
And then later in the interview he ducks answering question on regretting his Holocaust vaccine analogy. Weak, evasive and fact he even used this analogy indicates massive lack of judgment.
There seem good reasons why he’s not been a successful politician thus far in his 68yrs and it’s that he’s all over the place. He has some valid views and ideas alongside some fairly ill considered. Unlike Trump it seems doubtful he’d generate the donations needed either.

I’m an evangelical conservative who thinks the sexual revolution is the most pressing problem in the US today, so the chances of me voting for RFK Jr. are tiny. That said, I think he came across very well in this interview. He’s a person with a strong sense of himself, of what he believes and of what he wants to accomplish. He’s also clearly distinguishing himself from his competition. All of those things are good starting points for any campaign.

He’s clearly still living in the 60s, an old-style Democrat. Which is certainly preferable to a Biden-style Democrat.
His solution to the Ukraine problem is very like Trump’s. Unfortunately, that won’t end the fighting, it will just pause it until Putin has reconstituted his Army ready for the next push. Kennedy has a blind spot about NATO, which was very reluctant to extend eastwards. It was the former Warsaw Pact countries, who know a thing or two about living in fear of the Russians, who made all the running. Had NATO ignored their need to feel secure, it would inevitably have lead to Russian influence creeping back and the end to their search for democracy and better living standards.

I hope he can win. I believe people take his stance on vaccines completely out of context. As an R.N. I realize he is NOT against vaccines per se, he is against the lack of research needed for new vaccines, which can be deadly. This needs to be made clear to the public. Also, more publicity that he is a candidate is needed. I cannot imagine a debate between him and Biden. He is our best chance at healing our country. I pray to God he is not assassinated. I have watched his two brothers killed by psychotic maniacs and remember sobbing at age 19 when JFK was shot. I volunteered for the young Democrats back then. What followed was disaster with Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam.
Diana Woodruff, R.N.C.

What has happened to my very benign critique of the Kennedy Clan?

Surely NOT censorship of the vilest sort on UnHerd of all places?

I hope he stays clear of Dallas, if you know what I mean….

Environmentalists worry about the end of the World and the “Middle Class” worry about the End of the Month. And Robert Kennedy worries about a hypothetical problem that might effect us in 30,000 years. I’ve yet to see anyone injured by nuclear waste.

He makes a lot of sense but unfortunately he can’t possibly win the presidency with that gravel voice. I know that sounds superficial, but we live in a superficial culture where such things are important.

Funny, but Mussolin wanted to call his new party “Corporatist”, but they didn’t think it would catch on. What did they chose? Fascism.

the only complaint i have with this interview was the missed opportunity to follow up on the SCOTUS nomination of KBJ. I am curious what he would say he would do, now, in a hypothetical situation.
i disagree with him on several fronts, but i appreciate what feels like sincerity and honesty.

It is not as if Robert F. Kennedy Jr is going to be nominated, but while I appreciate that he is anti-war, that he is economically egalitarian by American standards, and that he is accordingly averse to erosions of civil liberties, he is also an anti-industrial Malthusian, an anti-vaxxer, and, well, yes, a very liberal Catholic indeed, who therefore lacks the philosophical foundation of a truly radical alternative.

What, though, of the idea that he will take 15 per cent in any closed primary, and at least double that in Massachusetts, out of dynastic loyalty? Ted Kennedy could not win the nomination against Jimmy Carter as long ago as 1980, and even in unison with John Kerry and Deval Patrick, he could not persuade the Bay State’s Democrats to prefer Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton in 2008. Even the sort of voters to whom the whole Kennedy thing is supposed to appeal are far less commonly Democrats these days. They are a much smaller proportion of the electorate at large. And more than half of them were not born when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, 55 years ago. What do the Kennedys mean to anyone under 70?

There has never been the class consciousness in the United States that there has been in Europe and the Old Commonwealth, and it has declined in those places under American influence. But when the tide turns there, then it will turn everywhere. The failure of the woke movement to take economic inequality seriously, and therefore to include vast numbers of its victims, may well be the turning point. This, though, does not look like that point just yet.

Do we really need another Kennedy, we’ve already had four?

The first was the worst, the second the best, the third had promise, and the fourth was feeble.

Just when you think things can’t get any crazier. Truly, the lunatics are taking over the asylum.