We want to think we were out in front, telling Donald Trump to stop bragging about Operation Warp Speed. We were early adopters of the change in messaging (early 2021, I think). It didn’t stick then, but when I saw him speak in Claremont, New Hampshire, in Early November 2023, he wasn’t tooting any warp-speed horns.
Regular readers will know I’ve been on 45 for years to back away from all his warp-speed talk. To accept that he was snowballed like many of us and took longer than some to realize it – or, at least, his speech writers took too long.
He didn’t talk about it at all except to say that as president, he would (and I’ll add, try to) block funding to schools that teach CRT, that gender-bending grooming business to young kids, and that impose any mask or vaccine mandate.
Lots of applause.
He also mentioned the need to clean out the bureaucracy, which includes the healthcare industrial complex.
This was long before RFK changed to a third party, but there’s some punditry out there on how this has changed Trump’s view on “vaccines.” It likely has and should at least in how Trump frames it. But this headline strikes me as a bit much: “Trump Voters Are Defecting to Robert Kennedy Over the Vaccine Issue.”
It’s May, 2024. If this issue has you thinking Robert Kennedy Jr. is a better deal for America than DJT then low information voter is a compliment. As I noted here, RFK would be a great big finger in the eye as a pick to head HHS in a Trump administration.
Wouldn’t it be the best thing ever if he nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services? I realize that Kennedy’s ascension to the gig would be another hurdle (similar to the one just described), but this is a dream sequence, so go with it. The smoke clears. He gets the job, and Trump says, welcome to the team, no go clean that shit up.
Would anyone object to that, assuming we woke up and it actually happened?
But when you get off the health freedom plantation (RFKJR is also good on deregulation), he’s a regular Democrat on much of the rest of his platform, and his VP choice is a dead end for anyone even remotely aware of what being MAGA is supposed to mean.
If RFK Jr.’s progressive proclivities beyond individual health rights and reigning in the regulatory abuses were a risk worth taking, Shanahan, the mega-wealthy, ultra-left-wing albatross, is too much to bear.
She is being marketed as a young, pulled-up her own bootstraps girl lifting herself out of poverty. She loved public school, was sexually harassed in the workplace (at least once), and finally rose to financial and social prominence by marrying a billionaire she later divorced and milked for a small fortune. Be that as it may, these days, she is a left-wing lawyer and a proglodyte “philanthropist” who married into big money, amassed wealth, and is a threat to liberty and individual rights.
Not to take Rick Moran at PJ Media to our tiny little woodshed, but his post is about how Trump has to change his messaging to avoid losing his voters to RFK on the vaccine issue. Again, who are these people he is losing, and are they our equivalent of low-information abortion voters?
We are expected to believe that these young American women will trade jobs, wages, safety in public bathrooms, safety on the street, financial privacy, economic liberty, and health freedom (on everything but abortion) for what amounts to the slim chance they might need to end a pregnancy in the third trimester? That’s the debate in my state.
That seems to be the case. Dems won in 2022 (or at least mitigated losses) running on one side of that debate because no one ran on the other side of it.
It must then follow that Trump supporters will give up a chance at cheap gas and electricity, property rights, secure borders, low taxes, global stability, Combustion engine vehicles, an improved economy, better wages, enemies in check, and safer streets for the chance that the Federal government could stop the Blue States from imposing vaccine mandates. I’m having a hard time with that, not because the Democrats are dumb enough to trade everything for third-trimester abortions – some clearly are – it’s that I can’t imagine Trump’s supporters being equally stupid.
Some, no doubt, are just ask DeSantis supporters. His health freedom message was crystal clear during the early part of the campaign, and he was good on almost everything else. Trump was not clear on health freedom, especially vaccine mandates. But when Trump spoke in Claremont, he said no vaccine or mask mandates for American kids. He promised to investigate the FDA and CDC as part of clearing out the bureaucratic morass and corruption. And he claims he’s set his sights on big pharma, including price gouging and outsourcing manufacture and R&D to foreign nations.
If you didn’t know that until just now, that’s his campaign’s fault. They need to fix that if for no other reason than to make it easier for voters who can’t vote for Biden but might not vote for Trump, which is the real problem from where I sit. Trump isn’t losing his voters to RFK; in fact, I think he has been getting them back as RFKJR’s stances beyond health freedom trickle into the collective consciousness.
He might be losing some fence-sitters because of unclear messaging, but he is getting a lot of middle-of-the-road Democrats, including minorities and women, and that’s his key to a potential numerical victory even Democrats can’t steal.
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