RFK Jr.’s Campaign Isn’t So Sure About RFK Jr.’s Policy Ideas

Kennedy’s independent presidential run has the front-runners on edge. But his biggest ideas are a “first draft,” a senior aide said.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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It’s not easy to know what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would actually do if he is elected president, even as the independent candidate rattles both Republicans and Democrats with an iconoclastic campaign.

His top campaign advisers can’t explain the policy agenda, either, at least not in detail.

NOTUS reached out to the Kennedy campaign for a broad conversation about what the candidate would want to do as president and was connected with Charles Eisenstein — a public speaker and author on topics ranging from dieting to spiritual well-being, and now the campaign’s director of messaging. He offered NOTUS greater detail about the campaign’s eclectic group of formal policy proposals, including plans to possibly mothball the Navy’s fleet of aircraft carriers and federally fund rehab centers on organic farms. It’s a sincere effort, he said, to find areas of agreement among different kinds of voters that can help them politically unite and take on entrenched corporate interests.