In a normal presidential election, an anti-system third-party hopeful like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would struggle more, writes Lee Drutman. But it’s not a normal year.
In a normal presidential election year, an anti-system third-party candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not be polling at nearly 10% at this point in the cycle. But this is not a normal year. This is an election year ripe for an anti-establishment candidate to create significant uncertainty — and potentially stir some even bigger changes to the US party system.
It’s anti-corporate and anti-government , a kind of trust-no-one mood that mixes progressive economic policy ideas with anti-immigrant sentiments and off-the-wall nutty-crunch . And, of course, a heavy dose of anti-vax conspiracy theories. In many ways, Kennedy’s eccentric anti-system populism echoes Trump’s 2016 campaign. Like Trump 2016’s posturing, Kennedy 2024 also taps the under-represented “populist” quadrant of the electorate.
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