From a Washington Post story by Michael Scherer headlined “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tests the conspiratorial appetite of Democrats”:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for president supported by 1 in 5 Democratic voters in some recent polls, campaigns on the idea that powerful people have been working in secret to deceive you.

He began a recent speech here by recounting the Eisenhower administration’s 1960 decision to lie when the Soviets downed an American spy plane by calling it weather research. Then came further deceptions — some proven, some refuted, many just conjecture.