Rape, medicine, adultery, DUI all okay. However for those who again Trump, the Kennedys will disown you

The Kennedy household has been a unit since lengthy earlier than I used to be born. It doesn’t matter what any of them did, the Kennedys caught collectively — even after they have been doing a little fairly dangerous issues.

So much has modified. The Democratic Get together has advanced from the celebration of the working man to the celebration of the person who thinks he’s a girl. It’s now funded by billionaires and Wall Avenue, and in that regard anyway, they’re now the whole lot they used to accuse Republicans of being.

On the identical time, the Kennedy household has transitioned from a unified and dependable unit to an appendage of the Democratic Get together. The choice by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s household to assault his character for endorsing a candidate they don’t like exhibits the world that regardless of the outfit was earlier than, it’s now only a group of really shameless folks.

The extra you have a look at the Kennedy household of the twentieth Century, the extra you notice it’s what the Biden household would appear to be if everybody in it have been Hunter Biden.

John F. Kennedy seemingly by no means met a girl he wouldn’t cheat on his spouse with. In response to reviews, each he and Robert F. Kennedy had affairs with Marilyn Monroe. Bobby reportedly had an affair with JFK’s widow, starting simply months after JFK was assassinated.

Uncle Teddy Kennedy was infamous for his drunken womanizing. The place John and Bobby saved their exploits behind the scenes (and their wives didn’t appear to thoughts, so long as they weren’t embarrassed publicly), Ted flaunted his excesses. According to eyewitnesses, he and one other drunken Democratic senator assaulted waitress Carla Gaviglio in 1985, in entrance of their very own dates, at a now-closed Washington restaurant in what turned infamously often called the “waitress sandwich.” That is no city legend, however an occasion reported repeatedly and corroborated in 1990 in graphic element in the pages of GQ. Neither Kennedy nor his companion, former Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) ever suffered any penalties.

And that’s simply the tip of the Teddy iceberg. To not bury the lede, however he killed Mary Jo Kopechne. He was current and wasted when his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, credibly accused of rape in 1991. Smith beat the rap after the decide on the felony trial refused to let the jury hear testimony from three different ladies he had allegedly assaulted.

RFK, Jr. was only one Kennedy amongst others to close ranks dutifully round Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin who served 11 years in jail for a 1975 rape and homicide. Skakel’s conviction was overturned in 2018.

John, Bobby, Ted and the others have been by no means deserted by the household, regardless of outrageous misconduct. They have been by no means smeared as misogynists, which all of them fairly clearly have been. And the household didn’t quit on even the following technology of Kennedys — together with Smith, Patrick Kennedy and RFK Jr. — over their substance abuse scandals, infidelity to spouses and alleged felony conduct.

However that was after they have been all loyal Democrats. Again then, decency was by no means actually a consideration as long as household was concerned. At this time, nonetheless, celebration loyalty has overtaken household loyalty. It’s as in the event that they’re saying they will overlook rape and driving below the affect inflicting somebody’s dying, however an endorsement of Donald Trump is simply past the pale.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first mistake was to problem the Democratic Get together institution and run a major problem towards President Joe Biden. This, nonetheless, was no worse than Uncle Teddy. However then Bobby, hampered at each flip by Democratic officers making an attempt to forestall an actual contest, introduced he would as an alternative run as an impartial. For this, his personal sister Kerry assailed him, writing that his determination “is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and consider it to be perilous for our nation.”

I can’t recall any time a Kennedy was publicly important of one other Kennedy, even for driving below the affect, as Kerry Kennedy did in 2014.

However that criticism was gentle in comparison with what has occurred now. Final week, RFK stepped on the headlines of the Democratic Conference by dropping out and endorsing Trump. The ladies, the deaths of their wake, the abuses of each possible sort — these have been all brushed apart in actual time. However considering otherwise from the celebration that had made their household title? That’s one other matter altogether.

Kerry once more led the pack with a denouncement of her personal brother. “We would like an America full of hope and sure collectively by a shared imaginative and prescient of a brighter future, a future outlined by particular person freedom, financial promise and nationwide satisfaction,” she wrote. “We consider in Harris and Walz. Our brother Bobby’s determination to endorse Trump right this moment is a betrayal of the values that our father and our household maintain most expensive. It’s a unhappy ending to a tragic story.”

The phrases “betrayal of the values that our father and our household maintain most expensive” is basically telling.

What are these values? Might or not it’s Walz’s dedication to chemical castration and mutilation of pre-teen children, even towards their mother and father’ consent? Harris’s new, hilariously disingenuous curiosity in constructing a border wall? I didn’t notice that was a factor within the Sixties. Abortion on demand up to date of beginning? Once more, an odd flex for a household of supposedly religious Catholics being raised collectively 60 years in the past.

The actual problem is that the cult of the Democratic Get together calls for absolute fealty. Ronald Reagan used to say that an 80 p.c buddy was not a 20 p.c enemy. However for right this moment’s Democrats, a 99.9 p.c buddy is a 100% enemy, even when he occurs to be your brother. Not even the Kennedy clan will get a free cross on that one.

The Kennedys have been by no means position fashions for the American public, however they at the very least acted like a household. They nonetheless do, though now it’s extra just like the Corleone household, the place everybody is suggested against taking sides against them…or else they get Fredo’d.

Disgusting.

Derek Hunter is host of the Derek Hunter Podcast and a former staffer for the late Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.).

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