Peter Kanellis

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American Scandal · Chappaquiddick | The Weight of the Name | 5 · 26 May 2026 podcast

Now, as we're talking, right, Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy's grandson, is running for Congress in New York.

And is trying to sort of reboot the dynasty in a new way by being completely addicted to social media, communicating in memes and in posts that are meaningful to a much younger generation and perhaps perplexing to people who remember the old Kennedy dynasty.

But it's an impressive kind of reboot attempt.

You know, it's like...

trying to remake the movie, but with a younger star who's much, much more attuned to the way that Gen Z is communicating and believing.

I also think that there's room for the Kennedys in the Democratic Party or the Kennedy kind of leadership in the Democratic Party because the Democrats need a charismatic figure to bridge their own internal divides.

You know, if you look at the party as being divided in some ways between the left that is now embodied by Bernie Sanders and Trump,

AOC, who are, you know, believers in single payer, believers in very sharp efforts to curb fossil fuels, believers in a very, very robust social safety net.

That left has always been there.

And then there has also been this sort of civil rights oriented side of the Democratic Party, that the party is about promoting, you know, acceptance and social change and promotion of

new communities and tolerance.

And to sort of bridge those two sides, you need to have a kind of charismatic centrist, centrist at least within the Democratic Party, not centrist in the larger scheme of politics, but a sort of mainstream liberal leader.

You think about Jack Kennedy, if you think about Bill Clinton, if you think about Barack Obama, somebody like that who can personify the goal of a more robust social safety network and

And the goal of greater tolerance, but do so in a way that is relatable to people and understandable to people and feels like it has a kind of human rationality to it and isn't just an ideological stance.

Well, there are lots of different cuts to that question.

I mean, when Donald Trump took over the Republican Party in 2016, it was interesting that the Republicans who were most committed to sort of keeping him in line, to sort of curbing what many people saw as his excesses, were the dynastical Republicans, you know, the Mitt Romney types, who came from their own, you know, long tenure of sort of family service background.

And who reacted negatively to Trump as sort of a disruptor of the politics as usual.

Now, some people would look at that and say that's a public service.

It actually is helpful among the system of checks and balances in our politics to have some dynastical politicians who have a kind of longer view of.

Or deeper association with politics and more of a commitment to the system.

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