DAVID MARCUS: If Democrats do him dirty, Stephen A Smith could be the next RFK Jr

As sports media prima Stephen A. Smith teased speech of a statesmanlike tally successful 2028 this weekend, determination is 1 happening that helium and those advising him indispensable surely know: The Democratic Party does not nominate outsiders.

This is simply a acquisition that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., learned successful some 2016 and 2020 arsenic his populist socialist question was blocked astatine each crook by enactment leaders. To his recognition arsenic a politician, Sanders and the socialists, aft a decennary of work, person present each but taken implicit the party.

The much applicable illustration to Stephen A’s would-be drawback for the aureate ringing successful 2028 is not Sanders, it is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose mistreatment by the DNC led him to endorse President Donald Trump successful 2024.

Host Stephen A. Smith successful speech with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) astatine a SiriusXM Town Hall lawsuit astatine SiriusXM Studio connected Nov. 19, 2025 successful Washington, D.C.  (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

Smith, tellingly, told CBS News that helium wants "to beryllium connected the statement stage," erstwhile Democrats vie for the information starting adjacent year. This is precisely the inquire that RFK Jr. made 2 years agone erstwhile helium was, not truthful cordially, told to footwear rocks.

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What Kennedy intuitively understood and what Smith seems to arsenic well, is that a heterodox, existent centrist connected a statesmanlike superior signifier is simply a nightmare for what we utilized to telephone the Party of Jefferson and Jackson.

Central to the Democrats' nationalist communicative is the progressively strained thought that figures similar Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger oregon adjacent Kamala Harris, are someway centrists compared to Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Squad.

Owing to a compliant quality media, this communicative has been working, adjacent if it's a lie. Immediately aft being elected, Spanberger raised taxes and threw her enactment down a slew of progressive bills. But hey, she looks and sounds benignant of normal.

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Part of the crushed this ruse works is that it goes unchallenged wrong the enactment itself. But that each goes retired the doorway the infinitesimal that the combative Smith steps into the fray.

FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a quality league astatine the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium successful Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file) (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Without Smith there, a alleged centrist mightiness get distant with a anemic non-answer connected men successful womens’ sports, for example. But tin you ideate Stephen A, with his arsenal of insults and pained facial gestures conscionable letting that slide?

When it comes to President Trump, the Democrats' full individuality is predicated upon his allegedly being a transgression authoritarian. But Smith doesn’t spot it that way. He calls balls and strikes, and that benignant of communal consciousness makes hair-on-fire progressives look downright silly.

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Democrats person a existent occupation here, due to the fact that if they usage their accustomed backroom self-dealing tricks to contradict Smith a spot connected the statement stage, helium tin bash precisely what RFK, Jr. did, and say, "I gave it a shot, but these radical are crazy. At slightest I tin speech with Republicans."

When Kennedy pulled that trigger, helium brought with him to Trump’s broadside an service of Make America Healthy Again moms crossed the federation who whitethorn good beryllium the biggest crushed Trump lives successful the White House today.

Smith besides has power implicit a cardinal demographic: the archetypal manosphere, that of sports speech vigor and media. Forget astir the alt-right influencers connected societal media. Every 27-year-old dude with a FanDuel relationship knows and respects Stephen A.

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In fact, determination was a infinitesimal successful the 2024 contention erstwhile governmental sharps knew it was over. It was erstwhile the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ interior polling showed that President Joe Biden’s double-digit pb implicit Trump among members, flipped into a 20-plus-point Trump pb with Harris atop the ticket.

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That benignant of shift, that fast, astir ne'er happens. So however bash the Democrats get Teamsters back? Well, Teamsters thrust trucks a lot, and guys who thrust trucks a batch besides thin to perceive to sports vigor a lot. Smith, literally, speaks their language.

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Interestingly, backmost successful 2015, the archetypal nationalist fig who I heard accidental that Trump would win, not that helium had a chance, but would win, was Mike Francesa, the Pope of New York City sports radio. Later, I realized these hosts speech to moving people guys each time for their job, truthful of people it gives them insights into voters.

Democrats are successful a tricky spot here. They truly can’t let Smith to radiance and exposure conscionable however acold near they person lurched. But if they bash him dirty, helium is not without leverage. In fact, helium precise good could springiness 1 whopper of a code for the nominee astatine the 2028 Republican National Convention.

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