[BillyBoy]

Wow. I'm shocked. 33 posts into this thread and nobody has showed up and told us we have to pretend that JFK was "more conservative than many of today's Republicans" so we can show "today's Democrats their party has changed" ;-)

I agree though, his friendliness towards fascism is seemingly out of the blue but it makes sense when you think about it, since his daddy was a NAZI sympathizer.

Really not hard to explain Ted Kennedy (and all of JFK's siblings for that matter) being far-left socialists either.. libreals may pretend Hitler was right-wing, but there's a lot of overlap between NAZI beliefs and liberal Dems on numerous issues (universal health care and free abortions on demand, guaranteed education for everyone, etc.)

[Impy]

When fascism first came about it was regarded as “left”.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/06/12/socialist_or_fascist/page/full

Mussolini of course had been a socialist. And “Nazi” has “socialist” in the damn name!