to protest the constitutional amendment. Some protesters even

a handful of scientists once claimed MMRwas responsible for an uptick in the frequency of doctors diagnosing children as autistic. Even though

numerous studies have refuted these claims, anti-vaccine advocates like Kennedy continue to undermine public confidence in vaccine programmes. “They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone. This is a Holocaust, what this is doing to our country,”Kennedy said in 2015

of MMR and his belief that it can cause autism. He later apologised for his offensive use of autism in comparison with the Holocaust.The other is his ableism, wrapped as it is in racism. In April, Kennedy

decried the increasing prevalence of autism in the US

as something that “destroys families,” adding that children who “regressed … into autism … will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”The ex-president claimed his decision to declare martial law and order the detention of opposition politicians was due to the government’s infiltration by antistate and North Korean forces.

Yoon was impeached the same month but wasnot removed from office until April

when South Korea’s constitutional court signed off on the impeachment vote.The last poll before the election placed the Democratic Party’s Lee Jae-myung as the frontrunner with 42.9 percent support, followed by