A Corner of the Hudson

Robert F. Kennedy started out in politics as a nasty little McCarthyite. By the time of his assassination in 1968, he was pretty far removed from that. His oldest son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has had the opposite trajectory. He started out as an environmentalist, doing good work to clean up the Hudson River. Last week, Jr. abandoned his third-party pointlessness and endorsed the vicious corruption and authoritarianism of Trump and the anti-democratic GOP. With Trump poised to run with the berserker Robert’s Supreme Court of Corruption’s dismantling of regulation, Jr. has essentially repudiated his environmentalism to welcome the pouring of raw sewage and toxic chemicals into the Hudson, and every other body of water in the nation. What a withered remnant of a political dynasty.