Peter Kanellis
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first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
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had developed over decades and decades of climbing to the White House.
And those lists were more important in the era when there were real strict limits on campaign contributions because you needed to get smallish contributions from thousands and thousands of people to be able to finance a campaign.
But in the Bush dynasty, you know, each member of the Bush dynasty had a slightly different political persona, including their views on issues compared to other members of the Bush dynasty.
It was seen as sort of like it was like an evolving kind of
political team, whereas the Kennedys always stood for the same things.
You know, when they ran, they stood for a certain kind of American can-do optimism, idealism.
You know, we can conquer our problems, and we can conquer our problems usually through legislation and government action.
So it was combining this sort of outsider charisma of the leader who's going to step forward and blaze a new path combined with
what we might have seen as New Deal-style liberalism, which is, you know, we're going to use government programs to try to advance social progress.
And that's what the Kennedy brand was.
And whether you were, you know, Joe Kennedy III or Joe Kennedy II or Ted Kennedy or Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, that's what you represented when you stood before the voters.
Now, what has happened to tarnish that and change that over time is there has been more skepticism perhaps about the New Deal-style liberalism.
That has changed in a way that has not advantaged the Kennedys over time.
Also, that sort of charismatic leader persona has been tainted because of what we know about some of the –
you know, now more obvious sexism of the JFK era.
And, you know, we no longer think of a sort of attractive white man kind of as the model of what politics should be with the, you know, shock of hair and all that sort of Kennedy masculine persona.
Notably, the Kennedy charisma never attached to the women in the Kennedy family.
It was always a male-dominated charisma.
And I think it has kind of expired, but we should take note of the fact that it did survive for far longer than the average political dynasty.
And it survived as a purposeful model.
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