The Paranoid Style in American Politics

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There is a type of person who spends decades making one terrifying prediction after another. Great calamities await us. Economic depressions. Acts of terror. Devastating pandemics. When tragedy finally strikes, because tragedy always strikes, this person is elevated to prominence and treated like Nostradamus.

One such figure, a man who has been loitering on the fringes of respectability, is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of former U.S. attorney general and assassinated Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

David Harsanyi

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David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner.

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