Putting It Out There: The Risks in Election 2024

 " ... [A] Kennedy relative told me he has warned RFK Jr. that he would become the target of a Democratic machine that would have no choice but to destroy him. " Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, July 2, 2024

Hagan's very very long-form hatchet job on spoiler Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raises the issue in some of our minds: Who else might be a casualty of volatile Election 2024. 

For example, will the sustained outspokeness that Joe Biden should step down by political strategist James Carville be punished? US Senator John Fetterman lashed out in the media for Carville to shut up. Obviously Fetterman et al. have more power and reach than does Carville. 

On the other hand, there are those insiders such as Jill Biden and sundry White House close aides who are encouraging Biden to hold on. If the White House and too many seats in the US Senate and US House go to conservatives, they might become The Unforgiven.

And what about those progressive law firms, which Open Secrets documents at least until recently, give heavily to the Democratic Party and peanuts to the Republicans. They range from Paul, Weiss to Quinn Emanuel. In contrast, Kirkland & Ellis and Sullivan & Cromwell are among those which contribute significant amounts to both major parties. That is, they hedge. Firms which haven't started donating more to conservatives could find themselves locked out during a possible Trump Administration II.

Not in any safe harbor are Everyman and Everywoman whose social networks, ability to earn a good living and having their street plowed could depend on being on the right side of politics. I know. In the 1950s in pre-gentrified Jersey City, New Jersey, I grew up amid the Frank Hague political machine. Legend has it Hague explicitly said: "I am the law." 



These are times laden with risk.

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