Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.: Trump’s Very Online Headaches

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:

America’s governing institutions are so sclerotic, corrupt, and co-opted by the undemocratic permanent bureaucracy that only a really destabilizing shake-up can right their course. We need fresh eyes — heterodox figures unbeholden to the staid Washington conventions that made it the swamp it is today. Indeed, those who object to flipping the tables in D.C. are part of the problem; either they don’t understand the scale of the challenge or they’re acting in concert with the deep state. Thus, there can be no good-faith objections to a revolutionary reversal of fortunes in the bureaucracy.

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:

America’s governing institutions are so sclerotic, corrupt, and co-opted by the undemocratic permanent bureaucracy that only a really destabilizing shake-up can right their course. We need fresh eyes — heterodox figures unbeholden to the staid Washington conventions that made it the swamp it is today. Indeed, those who object to flipping the tables in D.C. are part of the problem; either they don’t understand the scale of the challenge or they’re acting in concert with the deep state. Thus, there can be no good-faith objections to a revolutionary reversal of fortunes in the bureaucracy.

About the Author

Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.