RFK Jr. said what needs to be said: Biden's use of government power to suppress the speech of his political antagonists is a worse threat to democracy than whatever Trump has done.

"I can make the argument that President Biden is the much worse threat to democracy, and the reason for that is President Biden is... the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent. I can say that because I just won a case in the federal court of appeals — and now before the Supreme Court — that shows that he started censoring not just me but, 37 hours after he took the oath of office, he was censoring me (sic). No President in the country has ever done that. The greatest threat in democracy is not somebody who questions election returns but a President of the United States who used the power of his office to force the social media companies — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter — to open a portal and give access to that portal to the FBI, to the CIA, to the IRS, to [???], to NIH, to censor his political critics. President Biden, the first President in history, used his power over the Secret Service to deny Secret Service protection to one of his political opponents, for political reasons. He's weaponizing the federal agencies. Those are really critical threats to democracy."

The interviewer — perhaps only pretending to misunderstand — asks how what Trump did is not a threat to democracy. RFK Jr. answers: "I think that is a threat to democracy. Him... trying to overthrow the election clearly is a threat to democracy. But the question was: Who is a worse threat to democracy? And what I would say is— I’m not going to answer that question, but I can argue that President Biden is because the First Amendment, Erin, is the most important— Adams and Hamilton and Madison said, We put the guarantee of freedom of expression in the First Amendment because all of the other constitutional rights depend on it. If you have a government that can silence its opponents, it has license for any atrocity.... What President in history has ever tried to censor political opponents? What President has weaponized the federal agencies? You know, when my father came into the Justice Department, the first week he was there, he got all of the branch and division attorneys together, and he said, Whatever we do, we are not going to use the power of the Justice Department for political reasons...."

Pushed again about Trump's resistance to accepting the announced result of the 2020 election, he reminds us that elections can be stolen, and he personally thinks that has happened — twice! — in the last 20 years: "In 2001 [sic], we had an election stolen in this country, during the Bush/Gore election. In 2004, I wrote an award-winning article for Rolling Stone that showed how that election how that election was stolen from John Kerry... and most Americans agree with me about 2001, that it was a stolen election, from the Democratic candidate, so I don't think people who say an election is stolen— we shouldn't make pariahs of those people. We shouldn't demonize them. We shouldn't vilify them. What we should be doing is saying let's all get together — Republicans and Democrats — and fix the election system, so that... we're the exemplary democracy of the world."

ADDED: RFK Jr. doesn't mention the 1960 election. Was that one stolen — the one with RFK Jr.'s uncle? In 2000, just before the Bush v. Gore election, Slate ran "Was Nixon Robbed? The legend of the stolen 1960 presidential election":

“You gotta swallow this one,” says a Republican hack in Oliver Stone’s Nixon, referring to the 1960 election, in which John F. Kennedy prevailed. “They stole it fair and square.”

That Richard Nixon was cheated out of the presidency in 1960 has become almost an accepted fact. You’ve probably heard the allegations: Kennedy’s operatives fixed the tallies in Texas and Illinois, giving him those states’ 51 electoral votes and a majority in the Electoral College. Fearing that to question the results would harm the country, Nixon checked his pride and declined to mount a challenge....

Just because it's in an Oliver Stone movie doesn't make it true, but...

[A]ccording to journalist Seymour Hersh, a former Justice Department prosecutor who heard tapes of FBI wiretaps from the period believed that Illinois was rightfully Nixon’s. Hersh also has written that J. Edgar Hoover believed Nixon actually won the presidency but in deciding to follow normal procedures and refer the FBI’s findings to the attorney general—as of Jan. 20, 1961, Robert F. Kennedy—he effectively buried the case.

RFK?! That spices up RFK Jr.'s invocation of Whatever we do, we are not going to use the power of the Justice Department for political reasons....