A True Unity Ticket? Trump Adds RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard to Transition Team

Democrats like to talk a big game about unifying the country, but like a poor marksman, they just keep missing the target. Oh, they have their tame Republicans, like former Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, but for the most part, they just don't seem to understand the concept of "unity."

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has not only received endorsements - I would characterize them both as enthusiastic endorsements - from two former Democratic presidential candidates, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. Now we learn that Trump has added them both to his transition team:

Former President Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) to his transition team, bringing both aboard in formal roles on the heels of their endorsements.
“As President Trump’s broad coalition of supporters and endorsers expands across partisan lines, we are proud that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have been added to the Trump/Vance Transition team,” senior campaign adviser Brian Hughes said in a statement. “We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team as we work to restore America’s greatness.”

Kennedy confirmed his role when speaking to Tucker Carlson:

“I’ve been asked to go on to the transition team, you know, to help pick the people who will be running the government, and I’m looking forward to that,” Kennedy said.

This is an interesting move, indeed. Former President Trump is building, if not exactly a unity ticket, then certainly a unity team. And that may play a major part in how things turn out in November.

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While the Democrats are, again, talking about "unity," here Donald Trump is doing it. But there are larger forces at play here.

Way back in the day, some may remember, none other than Ronald Reagan was a Democrat. He left that party, claiming, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me." When we still lived in Colorado, we had, briefly, a very colorful Senator, Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Senator Campbell was Northern Cheyenne, a designer of traditional jewelry, and was criticized for climbing on his Harley to go on a March of Dimes run with the Hells Angels. I remember remarking at the time, and I still think it, that the U.S. Senate would be better off with a few more guys with ponytails who ride Harleys instead of the usual run of Ivy League nabobs and attorneys.

Senator Campbell switched parties, quoting Reagan as he did so: "The Democratic Party left me."

That seems to be happening a lot lately. It's not so much that the center cannot hold; it's that the center has moved to the left, mostly because the Democrats have dragged their end of the political spectrum outside of the realm of sanity, leaving people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Elon Musk finding that they are more closely aligned with Republicans.

This may well result in a drubbing for Democrats in November. I'm inclined to think that the presidential race will still be a nail-biter, but watch the down-ticket races - they may well be a little more indicative. The question is this: If they do take that drubbing, will the Democrats learn anything from it? I'm inclined to say no. When the progressive wing of that party loses badly in an election, their response always seems to be, "We didn't prog hard enough. Prog harder."