Democrats tore into Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his congressional testimony last week, unloading a barrage of personal attacks. But it wasn’t just the Left piling on. His own family rushed to the cameras, branding him an “embarrassment.”
That word carries a certain irony. As historian Victor Davis Hanson points out, the Kennedys never seemed embarrassed when the late Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick in 1969, leaving his aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, to drown while he scrambled to cover his tracks. No one in the family declared him a disgrace for not calling the cops until 10 hours later the next day, likely after he had sobered up. The same silence surrounded John F. Kennedy’s endless infidelities in the White House against wife Jackie, or RFK Jr.’s own 12-year heroin addiction. Not a peep of public shame then.
So why now? Why is Bobby Jr. suddenly their great humiliation?
Hanson says the answer is simple: it’s not his past — it’s his present. Kennedy’s high-profile partnership with Donald Trump has expanded the movement, drawn in countless new voters, and put real pressure on Washington’s sacred cows. That’s what has the family fuming.
The outrage looks even pettier when you consider what RFK Jr. is actually doing at Health and Human Services. Not just his skepticism of Big Pharma’s vaccine empire, but his broader mission: scrapping the food pyramid scam, cleaning up a corrupt CDC, and pushing healthier diets to prevent disease. That’s the kind of work most families would be proud of.
Meanwhile, the “embarrassment” torch has been passed on. Caroline Kennedy’s son, Jack Schlossberg, recently filmed himself mocking Melania Trump’s accent while clowning around in a wig on social media. If that’s the standard of class in Camelot, it makes the family’s moral outrage look even thinner.
The Kennedy clan has chosen their hill to die on — and it’s not principle, it’s politics.
Watch Victor Davis Hanson break down exactly why the Kennedys’ priorities are upside-down, and why RFK Jr.’s fight for a healthier America is nothing to be ashamed of: