Conservative Writer Nukes ‘Menace’ RFK Jr. from Orbit: An ‘Enemy’ of ‘Life,’ ‘Liberty’ and ‘Public Health’
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National Review senior writer Dan McLaughlin nuked Secretary of Health and Human Services-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from orbit on Wednesday.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as no business heading the largest department in the federal government. He especially has no business playing such a major role in a Republican administration. Everyone knows this. The only question is how many Republican senators have the courage to act on it. If they want Donald Trump to deliver wins for his voters, they should vote down RFK Jr.,” he began under the headline “RFK Jr. Is a Left-Wing Menace.”
The columnist noted that Trump likely feels that he owes Kennedy for his endorsement, but insisted that “most Republican senators owe Kennedy nothing.”
McLaughlin went on to mince no words in his takedown of Kennedy, devoting subheadings to calling him “A Man of the Left,” “A Man of Low Character,” “Enemy of Life,” “Enemy of Liberty and Law,” and “Enemy of Public Health.”
“As far back as his emergence on the national political scene in the 1990s and as recently as his 2024 campaign for president, Kennedy was a man of the ideological Left. He’s spent the bulk of his career espousing left-wing positions, running left-wing activist groups, wallowing in far-left conspiracy theories about our political and economic system, and surrounded by a family and social circle that is entirely of the Left,” he wrote.
“If Donald Trump wants his administration to veer to the left; persecute skeptics; defend Roe v. Wade, the abortion pill, and single-payer health care; ally itself with lawsuits for profit that enrich Democratic constituencies; and seed outbreaks of totally preventable communicable diseases, Trump has the right guy to run HHS,” concluded McLaughlin. “But Republican senators could do him a favor by keeping RFK Jr. out of that job, because the chances are that Trump doesn’t actually want to be responsible for any of that.”
