Close the curtain, for good, on Camelot
Posted By: MissMolly, 9/2/2020 12:31:49 PM
The dynasty is a dinosaur. Camelot finally went out of business, much like the end of T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Hollow Men. “This is how the world ends/ Not with a bang, but a whimper.” The last of the Kennedys, carrying the name of the patriarch of the clan, Joseph P. Kennedy, went down hard to, of all people, Sen. Ed Markey, who spent his entire lackluster career aping the Kennedys, but now ends their 75-year reign over Massachusetts politics. Markey rolled in the state’s upper-middle-class lily-white suburbs. Kennedy was reduced to carrying the cities, but not by nearly enough, as well as a few working-class towns inhabited by blue-collar
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It’s true that Joe III’s campaign broke a long Kennedy winning streak in Massachusetts, as the Boston Globe noted:
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Close the curtain, for good, on Camelot
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The dynasty is a dinosaur.
Camelot finally went out of business, much like the end of T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Hollow Men.
“This is how the world ends/ Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
The last of the Kennedys, carrying the name of the patriarch of the clan, Joseph P. Kennedy, went down hard to, of all people, Sen. Ed Markey, who spent his entire lackluster career aping the Kennedys, but now ends their 75-year reign over Massachusetts politics.
Markey rolled in the state’s upper-middle-class lily-white suburbs. Kennedy was reduced to carrying the cities, but not by nearly enough, as well as a few working-class towns inhabited by blue-collar
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