One candidate exits Mar-a-Lago to accept a Cybertruck with a decal of his own image. The other feeds local wild ravens between transcendental meditations. One devoted his career to high-price real estate development and reality television, the other to pro bono environmental law and consumer safety activism. One rose as a political outsider well-prepared by his entrepreneurial father, the other as a political dynastic heir coping with the assassinations of his father and uncle.
One is a former president and three-time major-party nominee. The other has never held political office and ran as an independent after being pushed out of his party’s primary process.
One speaks in brash, intuitional streams of consciousness, the other with polite and precise dicta and argument.
The two presidential candidates could hardly be more different from one another in personality than Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. But on policy, despite vehemently disagreeing on many issues, they share significant priorities.
Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump, and Trump’s embrace of Kennedy’s platform, …