Democrats are known not only for entitlement programs, but also for a profound sense of entitlement. They can’t fathom why President Biden is seeing a significant, possibly devastating drop in support from Black and Hispanic voters, for example, because they believe they own those people's votes.

But there’s another, significantly smaller group of voters to whom Democrats feel entitled, and the prospect of losing it could have ramifications beyond this very tiny group: the Kennedys.

The presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is proving to have some legs, which scares the hell out of Democrats. RFK is no Ross Perot, the independent presidential candidate who received nearly 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 election. But he could play the spoiler by taking votes away from Biden.

Unlike Biden, RFK is an actual progressive who seems to genuinely believes in the things he says. He isn’t doing what he is doing for any party — he’s doing it for causes (often badly misguided ones) that he believes in. Biden, on the other hand, is something of a chameleon. Not only has he been on every side of nearly every issue, but he has also claimed an ethnic kinship and bond since childhood with nearly every ethnic or racial audience he’s addressed.

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