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Was JFK The Last Libertarian Democrat?
The bullet that took JFK took more than a man, it finished a chapter…
When I tell people who my two favorite presidents are, they tend to freak out because of the instant, mental partisan clash that just pancakes every mainstream media inclination and public school orthodoxy they’ve probably been force-fed since birth.
To say he was a two-dimensional leader is to not understand Kennedy at all.
Republican Calvin Coolidge and Democrat Grover Cleveland are above all my favorite presidents. They left the size of the federal government smaller than when they came in. They balanced the federal budget, cut taxes, and left the nation with a shrinking national debt. Above all, they both revered the Constitution as the way it was intended to be- a rule book and instruction guide that was to be a pact between the people and those in power.
Many of our nation’s past presidents leave legacies that still enter public discourse to this day while some have faded into the footnotes of history, but no president (except perhaps Abraham Lincoln) is as revered by both sides of American political discourse as John F. Kennedy.
Whether it was domestic policies such as the fight against communism and historic taxes that woo conservatives or civil…
