Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s suspension of his American presidential campaign and his subsequent endorsement of Donald Trump is only the latest bizarre twist in a political year when expectations are toppled, precedents broken, and alliances shattered and remade.
While the ebullient delegates to the Democratic National Convention were making their way to airport departure lounges in Chicago, Mr. Kennedy did officially what his campaign earlier leaked but which still seemed an astonishing break with the legacy of, along with the Adamses and the Bushes, perhaps the greatest American political dynasty.
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