Bobby was a hard-core McCarthy-ite. He’s lionized by the Left because he changed his mind and co-opted the anti-war movement, thereby saving the down-ticket candidates from being swept away by the “clean for Gene” circus, even after he was killed by an Arab terrorist for his support for Israel. Imagine him today. Cancel Culture would have destroyed him for quoting white supremacists like Shakespeare and Aeschylus, his Zionism, and his one-time association with Joe McCarthy, although papa Joe’s antisemitism might have gained him a few points.
If he was alive today he’d shift as necessary. Leading BLM parades. Past associations would be dismissed like KKK Byrd.
No chance Gene McCarthy would have been the rat nominee in 1968 no matter the circumstances. Bobby Kennedy only had a chance cause he was Kennedy, Humphrey was really in the driver’s seat with the party bosses still choosing the nominee.