There is stepping into a lion’s den, and then there is the much more dangerous option:

Stepping into a congressional hearing before a pride of attention-seeking senators looking to rip a fellow human apart for a multitude of self-serving reasons.

This from thehill.com.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chose the much more dangerous option this week and has the rhetorical scars to prove it.

There is only one other person who brings out a greater unhinged reaction among the Left: President Trump. Over the last decade or so, the rage directed at him has accurately been described as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Over the decades—and especially as president—Trump has been correct about multiple issues and has done great good. Most of the left will acknowledge none of it.

Much of that irrational hatred and denial of basic facts for partisan advantage has now seemingly been directed at Kennedy. Many who watched the communist/globalist senators’ vicious and relentless attacks on Kennedy might surmise that some are now afflicted with “Kennedy Derangement Syndrome.” Ironically, it is Kennedy himself who can offer them the cure for what ails them: a fair and reasoned discussion regarding the health of the American people, free of partisan histrionics.

Soon after hearing about the gauntlet Kennedy had to run, Trump defended his HHS secretary at a luncheon at the White House, having said:

[H]e’s a very good person … He means very well … I guarantee a lot of the people at this table like RFK Jr., and I do.

Further:

I heard he did very well today. It’s not your standard talk, I would say that, and that has to do with medical and vaccines.

And:

But if you look at what’s going on in the world with health and look at this country also with regard to health, I like the fact that he’s different.

Trump may like “different,” because he and Kennedy share many of the same traits when it comes to a positive interpretation of that word. Three years ago, a book authored by Douglas MacKinnon, The 56: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign the Declaration of Independence, defended those men from being smeared and “canceled” by leftists during the woke era, and it also informed readers of the immense courage, vision, and sacrifice of those Founding Fathers.

While performing research for the book, the author learned that many of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence would have been considered quite wealthy by today’s standards. Information the author also obtained via research: The vast majority of the wealthy in 1776 chose to side with the tyrannical British crown rather than risk their money and status. Not so among the 56, who instead asked themselves the two most critically important questions of their lives:

If not now, when? If not me, who?

Those Founding Fathers could have remained in the shadows, like so many of the wealthy of their time, enjoying the good life while remaining out of harm’s way.

The same applies today to Trump and Kennedy. Both men knew that if they dared to step into the political arena to fight for their values, they would be mercilessly attacked by entrenched elites and special interests whose policies and grifts they threatened. And so, they have been—Trump most of all.

God speed to the Trump-Vance team.