Liberal Kennedys Will Go Catatonic – Bannon Announces First Act for Reformed Kennedy Center
C. Douglas Golden
A few decades ago, it seemed like defenestrating the Kennedy family from the cathedral of American power was an impossible task.
No matter how many women drowned in cars he was driving or “waitress sandwiches” he participated in, Edward Kennedy continued in his role as “The Lion of the Senate” until his death in 2009.
Since then, pretty much any Kennedy relative who expressed much interest in politics was hailed as the Second Coming of Camelot. Ted’s son Patrick came the closest to matching the legacy; a representative from Rhode Island until 2011, his upward trajectory was halted after a charge of driving under the influence when he crashed his car on Capitol Hill in 2006.
(Not that his issues weren’t pretty much public knowledge before then: The polemicist Christopher Hitchens, no stranger to insobriety, penned an essay three years before the accident in which he noted Patrick’s “ability to find his way to the House unaided has long been a source of intermittent wonder.”)
Now, there is a Kennedy back in a position of power: the one they don’t like, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who had the temerity to oppose 1) COVID vaccine mandates and 2) Joe Biden. The most famous structure and institution that bears its name, the Kennedy Center, is now being run on an interim basis by Richard Grenell, one of the Trump’s closest allies.
And when it gets reformed, who’ll be one of the first acts playing there? According to Steve Bannon’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, it’ll be the J6 Prison Choir.
The group, which is comprised of men who spent time behind bars for their roles in the Jan. 6. 2021 Capitol incursion, has been invited to the Kennedy Center by Grenell, according to Bannon.