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Story by Philip Bump
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Kennedy was being interviewed by CNN host Erin Burnett. Burnett asked Kennedy if he really felt that there was no important difference between Biden and Trump.
“I can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy,” Kennedy replied. “The reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent.
Let’s start with that last point, about the Founding Fathers and the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment is not first because it is most important. It is first because the first two proposed amendments to the Constitution — ones articulating the size of Congress and how legislators got paid — were not ratified. This relatively abstract point is a good example of how Kennedy works: He comes up with a tidy bit of rhetoric and is indifferent to its accuracy.
Kennedy’s claim about Biden “using the power of his office” to “force the social media companies” to “censor his political critics” is also untrue. Thanks in part to the rampant spread of misinformation during the 2016 election, the government — including during the Trump administration — worked with social media companies in 2020 and 2021 to combat false claims about the election and the pandemic. But there was no “forcing” them to act.
But the damage Kennedy can do to Biden isn’t simply electoral. Remember his argument for why Biden is perhaps a worse threat to democracy than Trump — that Biden censored his opposition, which he didn’t, whereas Trump only … tried to subvert democracy. (Never mind the other threats posed by Trump, like his legal argument that presidents should have legal immunity.) Kennedy’s claim about Biden is rooted in misinformation (about the primacy of the First Amendment) that he applies to misinformation (about the White House restricting speech) about misinformation (his post about Aaron).
Burnett’s question about Biden and Trump was predicated on Kennedy’s having warned Ralph Nader in 2000 that there was an important distinction between the major-party candidates that year that Nader’s third-party bid threatened. Kennedy’s rhetoric about Biden and Trump — rooted entirely in exaggerated or untrue claims — similarly blurs the distinctions between the candidates, possibly with similar effect.
Comment:
The Democrats are going to try to destroy RFKjr.
The Democrats would not have to censor if they were telling the truth.
Censorship is a huge red flag for totalitarianism.
RFKjr is correct about Biden and the Radical Left, they are the true threat to America's freedoms.
