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The R.F.K. Jr. Big Short

A close look at Donald Trump and R.F.K. Jr.’s cringe-inducing, partly hilarious, and ultimately failed forays into Libertarian Land.

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Difficult to imagine as it might be, R.F.K. Jr.’s face-plant in front of America’s third-largest political party was, in its way, more embarrassing—and potentially consequential. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
John Heilemann
May 28, 2024

In the overlapping realms of politics and political media, the term “shitshow” has in recent years been thrown around so often and so widely as to have been essentially debased by promiscuous overuse and dum-dum commodification. But every so often, an occasion presents itself for which no other descriptor will really do, and this weekend’s Libertarian Party national convention in our nation’s capital was precisely such an occasion.