I've actually been trying to conceptualize the Conservative about face on fixing the food supply the adopting what had been up until today a core plank of the Lefts political platform.
Thinking about it now though, RFK is a sort of culmination in the political shift that had been brewing for years. For several years now there has been "self improvement" pushes in right wing political circles. As well as "ret3rn to tradit0n" arguments that argued that it's important to get off your ass, stop listening to the government about what was healthy, drink raw milk fuck the laws, raise chickens, and stop eating the goy slop.
It was all seething under the surface for years, and Trump either by serendipity or uncanny awareness was able to tap into that with bringing RFK Jr into this. With the double kill being the long held suspicion of the glowies being responsible for the death of his uncle and father. Then add on the Covid Vaccine mandates, which were an egregious violations of the most basic right we have, the right to our own bodies, for the sole benefit and enrichment of multinational pharmaceutical corporations, and the critical mass was hit to cause the explosive shift among the political Right on the issue of food safety and health.
Cynical people will say that conservatives are just doing what Trump tells them too. People who know realize Trump is responding to the political dynamic within his own support base and is giving them what they want. Fuck Pfizer, and fuck homogeneous milk too.
I've surmised a major
political realignment would happen roughly around now for a very long time. The simplest way to explain why is to look at the generational voting base.
In 2016 Boomers and Silent generation voters were ≈50% of the voting base. And, older voters are more likely to actually go vote.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were both well known Boomers with nostalgic ties to "the good old days". Make America Great Again called back to those "good old days". Hillary exemplified the lifetime of Boomer feminist progress.
In 2024 Biden horrifyingly demonstrated the fading of Boomers (Jimmy Carter even more so, for Silent Gen). Kamala is technically a Boomer, but she tried to ape the Gen X style. Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley attempted to snatch the Republican nomination from Boomer Trump, but the old lion still has fight in him.
Trumps choice of doing the "bro circuit" of podcasters to appeal to younger voters was a smart and necessary move. Choosing JD Vance as VP (Millennial) was also smart. Kamala picking Tim Walz (Boomer) was very dumb, but the Democrat Boomers are holding onto their party power with an iron fist.
A striking visualization is Barron Trump in 2016 vs 2024:
A boy living in the world run by men like his father.
VS
A man seeking to find his place in the world.
Trump is still very full of life, but even so, there is an omnipresent feeling that younger men will be shouldering the burdens of the world soon. This responsibility has an impending inevitability to it. Barron Trump and other Gen Z will be forced into adulthood faster than the Millennial generation before them.
Millennials like JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard seem light in the résumé from being starved of promotions by Boomers. Now is the time for those with ambition to make a move (with or without "adequate" experience).
Gen X can finally have a say, but mostly those that already gained power in the Boomer era. Elon Musk, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz can leave the shadow of Boomers and make a mark on the world. They'll have to appeal to the younger dominant culture to do so. That is unfamiliar territory for them, though.
What the actual issues the two parties divide along after the realignment is still unknown.
These first weeks of Trump2.0 feel fast, but it likely won't slow down. Events will cascade and the tide of change will surge.
