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OAN Commentary by: Theodore R. Malloch
Friday, September 6, 2024
Sixty years since the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy and then later his brother, Attorney General, Senator and Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., we witness an historic turning.
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Not only do the clouded memories of the past resurface, the wonder about what could have been, the romance of what was for a time called Camelot, and the nostalgic fondness for a distant and better era now sorely gone, yet missed, flash back all anew.
Our innocence was taken, ripped from us, and a stream of violence and hatred, including racial discord and governmental overreach of endless programs and vast bureaucracies that in retrospect badly failed to make society great — flowed in. Kennedy took us to outer space and ended the Cuban Missile crisis but never got to do what he earnestly wanted to achieve because of a conspiracy against him. He was just too dangerous, too courageous.
Kennedy’s theme song in 1960 was sung by Frank Sinatra, it was called “High Hopes.” The lyrics went:
“Jack is on the right track.
‘Cause he’s got high hopes
He’s got high hopes
Nineteen Sixty’s the year for his high hopes.
Come on and vote for Kennedy.”
That optimism and futuristic valor was short-lived because of an assassin’s bullet. They said Oswald acted alone, but in fact it was, we now see, otherwise. The country in many ways never fully recovered from the losses, John, Bobby, Martin, and of Abraham a century before.
All of us sadly remember where we were when Kennedy was shot in Dallas that day in late November of 1963. It is ripped into our personal and collective consciousness, forever. And then, Bobby. It didn’t matter if you were to the right or the left, down the middle, or where you came from, east or west, north or south. It was a bell tolling death and darkness for all of us. Listen again to Dion singing about them in the classic, “Can You Tell Me Where They’ve Gone.”
From a strategic view, a higher 30,000-foot and longer-term overview, we can say, even without a full accounting from the Warren Commission or the CIA, who wanted to keep secrets secret, that the Kennedy epoch remains a significant part of our national iconography. We have long struggled to digest the loss and the dynastic effect, but the scars run very deep— even after all this time. Healing is hard. In biblical contexts, “reckon” is used over a hundred times in the Bible and it refers to the act of accounting or attributing value to something. This often involves recognizing the significance of faith, righteousness, or sin in one’s life. It implies a thoughtful consideration of one’s spiritual state and the implications of one’s actions. The same can be said for the nation as a whole. Perhaps, we have just entered a new period of reckoning.
I grew up in urban Philadelphia and I still recall the homes of many of my closest friends, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Black and White. So many of them had a portrait of Kennedy in the living room, some right next to the crucifix itself. Kennedy, his youthfulness, his enthusiasm, his charm, ushered in a window of hope and a new epoch for our country. Yes, Kennedy loved America, defended her and was a capitalist at heart. He lowered taxes and wanted to build a society of contributors. He sought to have citizens ask, what they could do for the country, not steal or demand from it.
Fast forward, and in the last few weeks we have witnessed what can only be called a full circle.
When Kennedy joined Trump in what could be termed a stage on a stage something new was created, a space uncommon in contemporary politics. We saw a glimpse of what could be; making America healthy again. Free from disease, pollution, surveillance and censorship, became at once a core part of the unifying vision to make the country greater. Two parts appeared to become one.
Coming on stage to the Foo Fighters hit, “There Goes My Hero,” the son of the Kennedy clan and currently its most effective voice, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shook hands with Donald J. Trump. The longtime iconoclastic Democrat endorsed and articulated a reasonable set of messages to not only end his own candidacy but to loudly endorse Trump, the Republican but maverick candidate, to be the 47th President.
When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined Trump on stage that moment at his rally in Glendale, Arizona, just hours after the third-party candidate announced he was suspending his own presidential campaign, something happened. RFK went on to then ringingly endorse the Republican nominee.
“We are both in this to do what’s right for the country,” Trump told the large crowd with RFK standing beside him, shoulder to shoulder, adding that if he wins the presidency, he would establish an independent presidential commission on assassination attempts that would also be tasked with releasing all the remaining documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, RFK Jr.’s uncle, who was killed in 1963. He intimated that RFK would have a significant role in his administration.
“He is a phenomenal person, a phenomenal man who loves the people of this country,” Trump added in praise of RFK Jr. Both had lived experiences of assassination. The elites were against them.
Kennedy, the former long-shot candidate, said he had more than one meeting with Trump starting over a month ago, in which they “talked not about the things that separate us because we don’t agree on everything, but on the values and the issues that bind us together. And one of the issues that we talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic.” They embraced.
Nicole Shanahan, the running mate for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released an ad the following day urging voters to vote for Donald Trump to help RFK Jr. “finish the story” his uncle and father had started. It was a moving tribute and evoked memories of the Kennedy clan and their devotion to America. Watch it here. The meaningful ad runs for over three and-a-half minutes. It begins with footage of President Dwight D. Eisenhower warning about the political power of the “military-industrial complex.” It moves through footage of President John F. Kennedy and his assassination, then Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) and his assassination. Both are seen delivering hopeful, inspirational speeches that unite Americans — before each is cut down, in turn.
A youthful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is then seen at his father’s funeral, mourning. The final scenes feature RFK Jr. joining former President Donald Trump on stage to announce his support for the Republican candidate. The music, throughout, is “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac, a haunting melody, with the refrain: “You would never break the chain.”
It has been a century since the birth of President John F. Kennedy, our youthful 35th president and more than half a century since he articulated his inaugural inspirational and optimistic vision of the United States as a force for prosperity and peace. His words and ideals remain deeply pertinent.
JFK’s actions embodied a clear vision of America in the world. His words embraced a sense of hope, combined with a strategy of peace, as the true source of American power and security.
It appears after all these years, all this anguish, deep polarization and division, we have come full circle.
Trump-Kennedy deserves far more attention than it has received to date. That is because the left and its media circus cannot stomach healing, bipartisanship, or unity. They feed off of more hatred, lust for political power and do not desire a greater America. In many ways, they have come to detest the very idea and spirit of America and deny its varied and rich history, our battles and victories, and our pluralistic tapestry of peoples. Their woke progressivism cannot stomach patriotism and certainly not, E Pluribus Unum.
The plagiarist liberal pseudo-presidential historians, like Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, who suffers extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome, and Jon Meacham, who claims objectivity and then pens inflamed speeches for Joe Biden, are not artful chroniclers of history. Like the ranks of their cousin journalists, they have left their professions.
You have to ask why haven’t more thinkers, big academic minds, opinion writers, commented on the newly minted and rediscovered unity between Trump and Kennedy, between those who want to make America great, and those who want to see America healthy.
Could it be that this is an alliance that will defeat the political party Kennedy called “undemocratic”? One that has fought to keep him off the ballot, used lawfare against both him and Trump? Is it because at 4-5% of the vote totals, particularly in the crucial swing states, Kennedy’s move could push the election in Trump’s favor? Is the media so divorced from reality that they can see only what they want and from one monocular perspective? CNN did call Kennedy joining Trump “gibberish” after all.
A reckoning always involves an itemized bill, a statement of a sum due. Is this historic settlement a signal of a new day for America and its politics in the decade before us? Could this alliance signify something far larger and long needed in our political culture? Could it entail a Pygmalion effect, a coming together of not just rivals but of our better natures, like most Americans I believe it does?
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is the acclaimed author of three books on Trump. Hired: An Insider’s Look at the Trump Victory, with an afterword by Nigel Farage; The Plot to Destroy Trump, with a foreword by Roger Stone; and Trump’s World: Geo Dues, with a foreword by Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of Interior, Matteo Salvini.
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