Kerry Kennedy: Assassination Of RFK 'Was A Terrorist Attack On Our Democracy' (MSNBC)

[ItsjustMe]

Robert F. Kennedy’s daughter, Kerry Kennedy, joins Andrea Mitchell to share her reaction to California Governor Newsom’s decision to deny parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted and sentenced to life for killing her father in 1968. “I was watching Bugs Bunny alone in this hotel with my feet crossed, and I'm watching the screen and that's how I learned that my father had been shot,” says Kennedy. “The difference between having Bobby Kennedy as president versus Richard Nixon as president, with his southern strategy of dividing Black against white in order to get more and more votes, is still with us today, and that's what led up to Donald Trump.”

[bucolic_frolic]

1. That's exactly correct and gains clarity as the plots are revealed

There are powerful forces in the world that are antithetical to democracy. Not too far back in history, many countries did not have elected legislatures. British Parliament only dates from about 1650s, France and the US of course the late 1700s. Many have followed that path, but as many rulers were deposed along the way.

[2Gingersnaps]

2. She is not wrong.

I tend to think of Ronald Reagan as the precursor that inevitably led to Trump, the genial salesman of destructive policy, but the Southern Strategy is exactly the national cancer that inevitably led to Trump.

[PJMcK]

3. RFK would have defeated Nixon in 1968

Our country would be on a different trajectory had RFK become President.

Alas.

[mountain grammy]

4. from Medgar Evers to Martin Luther King Jr to both Kennedys

All terrorists attacks, in my opinion.. as well as the Birmingham Church bombing and all the other incidents we never heard of.. the killings of civil rights workers and the death of Emmitt Till. We are a terrorist country.