From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

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This week, another Kennedy for president, Robert F. Kennedy

Jr., sion of the first family of democratic politics, is making waves in the party's primary

contest for the 2024 presidential election. Challenging incumbent President Joe Biden,

Kennedy's launched an insurgent campaign running against what he's called a corrupt merger of state and

corporate power. Kennedy, son of the assassinated presidential candidate, former senator and attorney

general of the same name, and of course nephew of President John F. Kennedy, made his own name for years

as a campaigning lawyer. He pursued environmental cases against big energy at other

companies, but perhaps was best known as a fierce critic of vaccines, especially those given to

children. He's made claims repeatedly that have been widely discredited by scientific evidence

about the dangers of mass immunisation, and he's, of course, spent a lot of time suing pharmaceutical

companies.

But his presidential campaign is focused on what he argues is government overreach.

He cites evidence of COVID lockdown restrictions and vaccine and other mandates.

He's also taking on supposed power and corrupt influence of big corporations,

and what he describes as a broad political climate of censorship

and creeping authoritarianism. Though he's widely regarded as a long shot or even a fringe candidate,

Kennedy's message does seem to be resonating with a sizable number of Democratic voters.

CNN poll last week measured his support among possible Democratic primary voters at 20%. Now, Biden is still

at 60%, but that kind of number for a challenger within his own party often spells deep trouble

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