2024 presidential campaign: Both the mayor of Miami and RFK Jr. are bragging about mediocre fitness accomplishments. What's going on with these candidates?

Two weeks ago, it was Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posting a purportedly impressive video of himself incline-pressing 115 pounds—that’s not a lot of weight—and another of himself doing eight quasi-pushups. On Tuesday, it was Miami mayor and Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez asking rhetorically whether any other presidential candidates could register a median-ish 5K time: Name another presidential candidate who can place 6th in a 5k with a 24 and a half minute run time. Go.#FXS24 pic.twitter.com/3fccbT58EW — Mayor Francis Suarez July 4, 2023 Running a 24-minute 5K in your 40s is nothing to be embarrassed about; your author would note that he recently did the same thing, albeit 20 seconds faster than Suarez and during a “guys’ weekend” in Maine during which he’d slept for roughly three hours. reject the authority of “elites” and “the woke mob” on issues ranging from hate speech to vaccines to the use of fiat currency, caricaturing their critics—bureaucrats, academics, journalists, and other detestable figures—as twee keyboard warriors who attain social status by criticizing others because they’ve never built anything of their own.