Robert Kennedy Jr has thrown his support behind Donald Trump in a move former friends have described as “sad and surreal”.
David Greenberg has an ancient T-shirt that he likes to wear in summer. It bears the slogan: “Kennedy for President.” But this year he had to take it off.
At its peak, his candidacy was polling around 15 per cent nationally, enough to be a serious spoiler for the main party candidates.RFK Jr, as he’s known universally, is blessed with the family’s good looks but none of its, ah, good sense. He blamed a. No, not a worm as metaphor for a mental quirk but a brain abnormality that he said was caused by “a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died”.
As Professor Greenberg says, the Kennedy name is synonymous with John F. Kennedy’s “restoration of an optimistic, liberal, can-do politics to the White House in 1961, and Bobby’s campaign represented something similar” in 1968, the spirit of so-called Camelot.“I think all these ideals have clung to the Kennedy family even though it’s suffered numerous scandals,” says Greenberg. “It was a myth, but it was a myth that was not without some substance.
By now supporting Trump, RFK Jr is joining a candidate whose biggest applause point at rallies is “drill, baby, drill!” as he promises a free hand to fracking and oil exploration.“It’s sad,” says Brune, who went on to become head of the Sierra Club environmental group, “and surreal”.in Central Park years ago as a prank. When the major parties excluded him from the recent Biden versus Trump debate, he.
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