The Democrats have dug their own grave by forcing the only true populist candidate on their ticket out of the primary and into direct competition with incumbent Joe Biden (or whichever puppet they replace the current puppet with) in the general election.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been threatening — due to maltreatment from his own party, including being viciously smeared with every pejorative under the sun — to vacate the Democrat Party plantation and plot his own third-party run as an independent.

Here's what he said a couple of weeks ago during a Forbes interview:

If the DNC is gonna make it, is gonna rig it so that it is simply impossible for anybody to challenge President Biden, and you know I need to look at other alternatives. Because I can't go back to the people who support me, to my donors, and say you know, I'm just going to, I'm just in this to make a point. I need to show them a road to victory.

The DNC apparently made no attempt to soothe the tensions in the interim period. Accordingly, it now seems that RFK Jr. has made good on his threats.

Via Mediaite (emphasis added):

2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce he will run as an independent on October 9 in Pennsylvania, Mediaite has learned.

Kennedy's campaign machine is now planning "attack ads" against the Democratic National Committee in order to "pave the way" for his announcement in Philadelphia about running as an independent, according to a text reviewed by Mediaite.

"Bobby feels that the DNC is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go," a Kennedy campaign insider told Mediaite.