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Susan G's avatar

You do not have to suggest that JD co-opted RFK Jr.' s vision. Read Hillbilly Elegy. Review Vance's Senate campaign. Review what JD has done since he became a Senator. Vance has had these values for years. He didn't get them from Kennedy. To suggest so is a shameful lie.

A more persuasive argument would be, look Republicans, Vance and I share many values. Here's where we don't agree, and why. Then explain why the overall RFK way is the right way for America.

This whole article undercuts Kennedy's contention that he's a different kind of candidate.

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Jessica Jensen's avatar

It should also be mentioned that Vance is a Theil protégé. And that these ties his mentor show up in the corporate interests rather than any real interests in the will of the common folk. Trump has gone on to court the swampiest for appointments rather than any real men of character, again showing that his rhetoric of the vague slogan of "drain the swamp" does not exclude but invites the oligarchy of billionaires that rule our country in hidden plays. Pro-war, pro- surveillance, and pro-merger of corporate capture that Kennedy has fought against for a lifetime is lain bare to anyone with eyes in the Trump vp pick, along with his campaign manager pick and his courting of JP Morgan's Jaime Dimon and Blackrock's Larry Fink.

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