Brief: RFK Jr Flirts with Body Fascism (w/Natalia Petrzela)
Conspirituality
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The Importance of Exercise in the US Presidential Campaign
There's this trope of the middle aged man and lycra, which is very much not what he's trying to cultivate there. It also reminded me as a historian of fitness so much of this spread that Ronald Reagan did when he was present about exercise. He wanted to say like, look, I'm still like Teddy Roosevelt. I've got that rugged masculinity in that strenuous life. And you see a lot of those themes still manifesting in like RFK self presentation.
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