2. Prof. Kruse argues that JFK was a liberal, not a conservative, in the terms of our own day. This is a false dichotomy; he wasn't Goldwater, but he was a conservative Democrat on many issues by the standards of his day, and would be off the far right end of today's Democrats.
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3. I do not claim JFK as a movement conservative. As
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4. The fact that JFK - like every president ever - had both partisan & extremist critics in the other party proves nothing. These are the same people who thought Ike was a Communist & were blood feuding with Bill Buckley. https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1104826921513353217 …
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5. Ira Stoll argues, in this column & listicle & his book, that JFK was a conservative. That's a stretch & some of his examples are as trolly as Prof. Kruse's, but he notes some important ways in which JFK was really not liberal. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/irastoll/21-ways-jfk-was-actually-a-conservative-fjkq …http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/14/jfk-was-a-political-conservative/ …
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With all due respect and not having read yours or his opinion, let's not. Without the possibility of time travel, it's irrelevant. I will be older than most voters in 2020. And the first President I can remember is Johnson.
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Gargle my balls
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Welcome to the world of nuance. It can be scary at first, but you might learn to appreciate it.
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Why would he need one. Your pushing a big logical fallacy regardless of whether he is right or wrong.
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