Zeeshan Aleem is a writer and editor for MSNBC Daily. Previously, he worked at Vox, HuffPost and Politico, and he has also been published in, among other places, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Intercept. You can sign up for his free politics newsletter here.
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his bid for the White House last year, Kennedy took positions on a wide variety of issues tied to the economy, war and the environment that had the potential capacity to appeal to disenchanted citizens across the political spectrum. And it looked like there was a chance he might run as a populist not entirely defined by his fringe conspiratorial views about vaccines.
He has raged against the “pharmaceutical-industrial complex” while describing Anthony Fauci as “one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation.” As Gordon Pennycook, an associate professor of psychology at Cornell University, pointed out for MSNBC, the quarterback embodies the hubris of the “I do my own research” guy. A CNN reporter says Rodgers privately told her that he believed the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a government inside job and a staged event.
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