Nostalgia and Nepotism

 

During the Super Bowl, RFK Jr's Super PAC aired an ad that put his face over that of his uncle. Just as they disapprove of RFK Jr's candidacy, several of his family members came out to note the ghoulishness and appropriation of the ad. As for the man himself, he's very sorry to for his family being hurt by the ad, and had nothing to do with it at all, at all, but here is is: his pinned Tweet. (Or it was as of the time of this blogging.) 

There are some genuinely silly things contained in all this: the 1960s, which this ad is a callback to, is 60 years ago. I don't personally have any nostalgia for it and that goes for a lot of younger voters. He doesn't seem to stand for the values of his honored and passed near-relations and is derided by his currently-living near-relations, so if he's running on nostalgia or nepotism, it seems like he had two strikes against him. 

But somehow the millionaires and billionaires who fund this campaign believe that this is the way to frame their old and strange boy. Where the youthful brothers' Kennedy gave us hope and a new frontier, in the 1960s, this addled Boomer is going to unite the country--with people like Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon.

Yeah. I'll pass.