The Kennedy scion’s presidential bid is getting a financial boost from the tech world, where his love of Bitcoin and hatred of vaccines is finding libertarian fans.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s second word“Hello, Bitcoiners,” the 69-year-old Democratic candidate greeted the crowd at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in May. “There are a lot of people, who are not in this room, for whom Bitcoin may seem an issue that’s too trivial for a presidential campaign.”
He went on to explain that he’d become convinced of Bitcoin’s importance while watching the 2022 Canadian trucker convoy, in which drivers shut down Ottawa roadways in protest of anti-COVID measures, leading to temporary freezes of some. He linked the Canadian case to a hypothetical situation in which a state-controlled digital currency could be used to control citizens’ spending so that you “could only purchase groceries within maybe a five-minute walk of your home.
A speech at a Bitcoin conference made for an unconventional campaign kickoff for Kennedy, who is running a longshot primary bid against President Joe Biden. But Kennedy’s campaign, now in its second month, has found some of its greatest support from vaccine opponents and techie types—with the latter helping his campaign through its early fundraising.
For much of his career, Kennedy was an unlikely Silicon Valley favorite. The son of Bobby Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Jr. studied law and spent much of his professional life advocating on behalf of environmental causes. But he fell short of holding official office. When the Obama administration considered him to lead the Environmental Protection Agency,
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