Curb your enthusiasm for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Hot take: He’s the next Donald J. Trump, but even less politically accomplished and I didn’t think that was possible.

The notion that RFK Jr. could competently serve as president of the United States is laughable. His TV star wife, actress Cheryl Hines, who plays Larry David’s long-suffering spouse in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” seems superhuman in her tolerance for her real-life husband. Write in Larry, folks.

As a young man, RFK Jr. was widely regarded as the most politically marketable of all the Kennedy kids of that generation. Kennedy was his father’s image, but better, looking like the front man for the New Frontier — rock star long hair, big smile and hyperarticulate. He was said to be shopping for a U.S. House district in New York, en route to more.

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Then the tragedy of his father’s assassination overwhelmed him. The plane he was on over Rapid City, S.D., had to land because he had overdosed on heroin. What RFK’s children had gone through is unfathomable, and it is no wonder that he sought escape.

RFK Jr. quit drugs, got (thrice) married, had lots of photogenic children, and made a name for himself........

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