1. This thread by Prof. @KevinMKruse unfortunately presents a misleading & oversimplified history of John F. Kennedy & his presidency. Let's dig in and explore why, moving from the general to specifics. https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1104826912445206529 …
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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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There were a lot of Democrats in that period far more conservative than Kennedy. I would was in the center of his party which put him on the (perhaps near) left side of the political spectrum
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Lowered taxes, strong on national defense...actually laid the groundwork for Vietnam
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Let’s put taxes back to where JFK had them, since that’s “conservative” to you.
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Nixon and Eisenhower were conservatives. Neither of them would be a successful Republican in today's party.
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Yeah, but Marilyn Monroe gave him one hekuva nice liberal birthday surprise.
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If he’d paid her off to keep quiet about it, would that make it a “conservative birthday surprise”?
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