Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired up a crowd of Trump supporters with a powerful message of unity, populism, and fierce criticism of today’s Democratic Party.
Kennedy, the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, painted a vivid picture of the Democratic Party’s transformation from a champion of peace, civil rights, and the middle class into a force that he claims now embodies war, division, and corporate interests.
He pointed to the current Democratic agenda, which he claimed prioritizes the interests of Wall Street and big corporations over the American people.
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“Thank you, New York. Thank you. A lot of people ask me why I left the Democratic Party. I say, I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me. This is not the party anymore of Martin Luther King, of Robert Kennedy, of John Kennedy.
That was the party of peace. It was the party of constitutional rights, of civil rights, of freedom of speech.
It was the party that wanted to protect and nurture the middle class. It was the party that stood up to censorship, to surveillance, that stood up to the CIA, the military-industrial