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The Magic Thinking of Kennedy-ism - The American Prospect

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The hero worship of the family of American royalty has a dark side: a tendency toward conspiracism that fits with the MAGA movement.

Credit: Evan Vucci/AP Photo The strangest thing happened to me about 15 years ago. I got a voicemail from someone identifying himself as Robert Kennedy, expressing admiration for my book Nixonland . RFK Jr’s voice was not nearly as raspy then, and for a surreal instant I felt like one of the book’s subjects—RFK Sr.—was speaking to me from the grave. Which is unusual, but not that unusual. Dead Kennedys are always speaking to living Americans. As the punk band of the same name explained why they chose it: “When JFK was assassinated, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, when RFK was assassi

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