It is a measure of how miserable Americans regard the likely choice for President in 2024 – yet another run off between Joe Biden and Donald Trump – than Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is regarded as an attractive alternative. You can understand the superficial appeal.
Trump, 77, faces 91 felony charges in four separate court cases. Next year he’s likely to spend more time in the dock than on the campaign trail.
The indictments bolster his base, who see it all as a ‘deep state’ conspiracy to jail him. But they hardly endear him to the moderate and swing voters he needs to retake the White House but who don’t relish voting for somebody who might be a convicted criminal by the time he’s back in the Oval Office.
Biden, already 80 (and an ‘old’ 80 at that), is visibly deteriorating before our very eyes. His aides hold their heads in their hands as he struggles to make it to the end of the teleprompter without yet another embarrassing gaffe. Allowing him out in public unscripted is…