Three Key Takeaways from the RFK Confirmation Hearing

Topic: Perspective

Even though the outcomes are predictable, with party line votes minus a few compromised Republican defections, the confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s cabinet picks continue to yield valuable insight into what ails the political world and our most prominent elected officials. I profiled Pete Hegseth’s confirmation process last weekend, in an article that can be read here.

Hegseth’s confirmation is crucial for reshaping the Department of Defense and the decaying military culture found within, which was beginning to rear its ugly head more than a decade ago when I was making my way out of the Army. Along with Hegseth, I’ve tagged Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for Health and Human Services Secretary as Trump’s most critical choices requiring 51 votes in the U.S. Senate. This is what I had to say about Kennedy in my November treatise trying to get perfectionists and ideologues to step back from the proverbial ledge:

This is a vitally important pick for Trump to have made because it falls under the trust department. The two men formed a coalition in August that proved vital in getting Trump elected through the narrowly decided battleground states, and this brought in an entirely new segment to the MAGA movement that considers itself populist, but more aligned with green reforms. This pick screams that Trump can be trusted to follow through on his word. Kennedy’s confirmation, if it happens, breaks the red-blue paradigm, and if he is successful in making America healthier and ridding the grocery aisles of toxins while promoting medical freedom, then generational cultural change will follow. America cannot survive the scourge of obesity and low fertility that has been brought about largely from the abuses of the big food and big pharma industries.

Furthermore, nominating a vocal critic for a key cabinet position shows a strong side of Trump’s leadership and willingness to bridge divides for the common good. Kennedy is a change agent and all Americans should hope he succeeds.

Prior to last night’s aviation tragedy over the skies of Washington, D.C., a seriously ridiculous confirmation hearing to determine Kennedy’s fate took place in the U.S. Senate. It was filled with the standard Democrat double-speak, hypocrisy, and hysteria, and reading through the lines, of what was said over the course of several hours leads me to three main takeaways that paint the clearest picture of the disposition of the most powerful federal chamber:

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I. “Conspiracy Theorists” for the Win

Even more so than Trump, Kennedy identifies with this popular meme perhaps better than anyone:

Since even before he announced his presidential campaign, Kennedy has been tarred, feathered, and branded as the worst sort of conspiracy theorist imaginable, which is media-speak for anyone who questions entrenched government talking points and sheds light on the grift that controls the national discourse to the detriment of American citizens. When asked directly by Thom Tillis if he qualifies as a conspiracy theorist, Kennedy replied:

That is a pejorative, senator, that’s applied to me, mainly to keep me from asking difficult questions of powerful interests.

From the remainder of the CBS news article:

Kennedy said he's been called a conspiracy theorist for his statements on COVID-19 transmission early on in the pandemic, for his assertions about red dye causing cancer and for saying that fluoride lowered IQ.

"I could go on for a week," Kennedy said, citing the issues as examples of where public opinion has evolved over time.

The FDA recently announced it had decided to revoke food coloring Red 3's authorization to be added to foods, over concerns about how the dye has been linked to cancer in laboratory animals.

Last September, a court ruled against the EPA in a lawsuit about health risks due to fluoride in water.

As a recovering ideologue myself, I readily identify with Kennedy in having been branded by the biggest names in the mainstream media as a conspiracy theorist. I just happened to incorporate traditional political indicators with my estimates of possible election manipulation to formulate a perfect 312-226 Electoral College prediction, while Kennedy correctly grasps what is making the nation ill and insane.

The best way to handle folks who attempt to brand you and shut you up is to document each instance in which you are right. Consistent with a growing distrust of government, more and more Americans readily identify with Kennedy’s positions and goals for the department, which is corroborated by the critical coalition Kennedy and Trump formed last summer that cemented victory.

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II. Defiance of the People