For decades they’ve demanded certain treatment because of who they were. They’ve taken advantage of many people they were meant to serve. Their connections were deep and people were afraid to oppose them.
That ended a little when JFK Jr. died. There was no longer an heir apparent. But Ted still lived and his presence still commanded fear. He’s gone and none of the new generation (saving the one who died in the plane crash) are anything like their precessors except in their morals. Arnold’s wife is probably the closest they have to normality in that family.
Without Ted I suspect his family is going to have a far harder time winning or holding office now. Even Democrat’s would like nothing better then to finally push that family aside.
No other way to explain the special treatment they got after the death of young John Kennedy...the burial-at-sea aboard a U.S. military ship...for no other reason than he was a Kennedy and ol' Teddy's demanding it, no doubt.