Junior High

“Donald Trump and Bobby Kennedy—as I’ve referred to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since we met freshman year at Harvard—have always had many features in common as well. Both are entitled playboy sons of northeastern wealth; both (in Michelle Obama’s words) were ‘afforded the grace of failing forward’ as misbehaving, underachieving adolescents admitted to Ivy League colleges thanks to ‘the affirmative action of generational wealth’; both were reckless lifelong adolescents, both attention-craving philanderers and liars, both jerks … On the subject of reckless-adolescent entitlement, I’ve got one Bobby Kennedy anecdote to tell.” Kurt Andersen has been saving this story for a while. The Atlantic (Gift Article): RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer.