So much for Camelot. So much for the mainstream media’s spit-swapping love affair with the Kennedys.

The old man was a bootlegger? No problem. President John F. Kennedy may have stolen the 1960 election with suspicious electoral wins in Illinois and Texas? No problem. As president, he carried on an 18-month affair with a teenage girl concurrently with a two-and-a-half-year affair he’d been having with a mobster’s girlfriend? No problem. The president’s brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, authorized the FBI to extensively bug and wiretap Martin Luther King Jr.? No problem. The attorney general and the president both had affairs with Marilyn Monroe? No problem. Their younger brother, Senator Teddy Kennedy, drove drunk off a bridge at Chappaquiddick and caused the death of a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne? No problem.

But the son of the late Bobby Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dares to challenge a woefully corrupt and decrepit Democrat incumbent for the 2024 nomination? Whoa, there, we’ve got ourselves a big problem.

Barring some unusual circumstance — such as a challenge from Failed State of California Governor Gavin Newsom — Joe Biden will win the Democrat nomination for president at the party’s national convention in Chicago next August. Virtually every influential Democrat is supporting him over two unlikely challengers.

Two exceptions to that widespread if not exactly enthusiastic Democrat support would be Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and former Democratic pol Tulsi Gabbard. And who can blame them? The alternative, after all, is Joe Biden.

As for those challengers, the New York reports: “Those upstart rivals include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist with a celebrated Democratic lineage who has emerged with unexpected strength in early polls even as he spreads conspiracy theories and consorts with right-wing figures and billionaire donors. Mr. Kennedy’s support from Democrats, as high as 20 percent in some surveys, serves as a bracing reminder of left-leaning voters’ healthy appetite for a Biden alternative, and as a glaring symbol of the president’s weaknesses.”

In another Times attack piece, the headline reads, “Robert Kennedy Jr., With Musk, Pushes Right-Wing Ideas and Misinformation,” while the body copy dutifully reveals “a host of false statements,” including the “bioweapon” status of COVID-19 and the connection between gun violence and psychiatric drug use. Kennedy has also blamed the CIA for the assassination of his uncle on November 22, 1963.

Twenty percent of Democrat support, though, is a long way from 51%, but that doesn’t mean RFK Jr. can’t make Biden’s life miserable between now and the nomination and mortally wound his campaign ahead of the general election on November 5, 2024. And that’s why the Leftmedia is circling the wagons around the 80-year-old Biden and taking potshots at Kennedy — who, at 69, is no spring chicken either.

As the New York Post’s Ashley Rindsberg notes: “In lieu of actual facts, the Times presents ‘fact-checks,’ claiming, for instance, that Kennedy advanced a conspiracy theory by questioning the outcome of the 2004 Bush-Kerry election. Guess who else questioned the validity of that election? The New York Times in a lengthy November 2004 editorial.”

Rindsberg continues: “The same day as the Times hit piece, The Washington Post weighed in with a 3,600-word bruiser. In its first sentence, the article claims that Kennedy ‘campaigns on the idea that powerful people have been working in secret to deceive you.’”

It’s one thing, for example, for Kennedy to express strong concerns about the COVID vaccines; it’s another for his Leftmedia detractors to imply that he’s nothing more than a crank.

But that didn’t stop the Washington Post from quoting an anonymous source in its anti-Kennedy hit piece: “His entire worldview has become a conspiracy theory.”

As the Post’s Rindsberg adds of Kennedy: “His most controversial stance is on the war in Ukraine, where he strongly opposes American involvement (though his son volunteered to serve alongside Ukrainians). Back home, he believes transgender athletes should not participate in female sports; and, at time when the media itself seems to be hiring directly out of Langley, he’s harshly critical of America’s intelligence community, and particularly the CIA, which he believes is responsible for the assassination of his uncle.”

“Conspiratorial thinking is not just a right-wing phenomenon,” said former Biden press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki. “It’s found across the political spectrum, including among self-described Democrats.”

What could be worse than tarring Kennedy as a conspiracy theorist? Get a load of the attack in Washington Post columnist Matt Bai’s headline from last month: “His Name is Kennedy. His Campaign is Pure Trump.”

Ouch. Pure Trump. Talk about a low blow. In other words, the Post is accusing Kennedy of planning to return the nation to the days of a great economy, low inflation, a respected foreign policy, and effective border security.

Unless by “Pure Trump” they mean that Junior sends out mean tweets. In which case, he doesn’t stand a chance with suburban women.

Come to think of it, it’s only natural that the Leftmedia and, by extension, the Democrat establishment would hate Kennedy. Contrast his willingness to question conventional leftist orthodoxy with the Democrats’ fringy, anti-science beliefs on transgenderism and abortion and COVID, and contrast his ardently non-authoritarian streak with the Democrats increasingly pro-censorship, pro-authoritarian ideology.

Indeed, these two are mutually incompatible. Even though the one has the Kennedy surname.

Updated to include additional info on candidate Kennedy’s unorthodox views.