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What would JFK think of the modern day Democratic Party?

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On defense and foreign policy, I think JFK would be comfortable in the democratic party. He found a way to negotiate peacefully out of the Cuban missile crisis (or none of us would be here); a democratic president supported by his party worked out a nuclear agreement with Iran. read more

John Fitzgerald Kennedy stands to this day as the only true liberal ever elected president in the Democratic Party (Grover Cleveland was liberal but not in the racial-equality sense). He was both a supply-sider on the economic front and a civil-rights crusader (if a cautious one). read more

If JFK were here today, he would either have to renounce most of what he stood for or join the Republican party. Even as late as 1980, supply-side policies could be denounced as “voodoo economics” by George H.W. Bush, but before the term was popularized Kennedy was an instinctive supply-sider. read more

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