“The past isn’t gone, it’s still being fought about.” That’s what Faulkner might have said about the hostilities between Democratic congressman Joe Kennedy III and commentator Hugh Hewitt after Hewitt’s column, “The Party Of Robert F. Kennedy Is Gone.”

Hewitt argues not only that Bobby is no longer with us, but that the party that produced him no longer exists. Having raised him and his older brother, and heeded his speech after Martin Luther King had been murdered, the Democratic Party has altered itself beyond recognition, and is no longer with us, he argued.