No right-leaning person no matter how #NeverTrump will be able to swallow the mega-progressive Ms. Shanahan.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s choice of Nicole Shanahan that I predicted a few days ago—don’t take a victory lap, Roger—was a terrific choice … for former President Donald Trump.
In fact, I wrote the article, in part, in the hopes of disabusing Mr. Kennedy, whom I had previously interviewed, of the choice, not that I had much chance of doing that. A number of names had been bandied about from footballer Aaron Rodgers to former Hawaiian congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, all of whom were probably better picks.
No right-leaning person no matter how #NeverTrump will be able to swallow the mega-progressive Ms. Shanahan. Only disaffected Biden voters, those who think the president isn’t sufficiently “woke,” or awake, need apply.
For Mr. Kennedy’s part, he has proven once again that journalist H.L. Mencken knew best: “When someone says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
What other reason could he really have for choosing such an unknown person with a record of generous donations to extreme left candidates such as Mr. Defund the Police himself, Los Angeles County district attorney George Gascon, among those most responsible for the extraordinary decline of the once-great city?
The Free Beacon has a litany of Ms. Shanahan’s selections for her largesse—“RFK Jr. Taps Soft-on-Crime Donor for VP”—that seem to come directly from the George Soros playbook.
Ms. Shanahan is the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, among the planet’s richest and most powerful men. Indeed, there is reason to believe that multinational tech giants such as Mr. Brin have more power these days than most, if not all, heads of state.
They live on a plane so distant from the working man and woman that they seem to come from another universe. Ditto for the minorities they claim so determinedly to support. Black-on-black crime has been by far the most dominant in our country for years now, but they dare not speak its name because that undermines their narrative and diminishes their power. Out of their selfish silence comes the continued ruination of poor black lives. This is particularly true of black children who are being gunned down with a terrifying frequency.
