What position did JFK hold that was leftist?? Do you think his staunch anti USSR stance was an act? Really? He was one of only three modern Presidents to actually lower marginal income tax rates. On that alone he should have your admiration.
JFK was a moral and ethical reprobate. He stole the 1960 Presidential election. He was a narcotics addict who could barely function. You’re going on about taxes when they were closer to completely confiscatory that any sane individual could tell you was costing the government money, not the other way around. As I recall, the stuff wasn’t even enacted until LBJ assumed office (but I guess you’ll call him a “Conservative”, too).
JFK was an across-the-board big government expansionist. What government did he cut ? He was such a staunch anti-Soviet that he GIFTED Cuba to the Castro family for perpetuity, and we still have that cancer today 90 miles off of Key West. Nixon would’ve gone in there and actually backed the Cuban patriots to remove that cancer. Khruschev was dealing with an incompetent, drug-addled child and ate Jack’s lunch.
This is what happens when you let the media pick and choose the President, celebrity-level incompetence that left this country far worse than one could ever imagine. FDR, JFK, Carter, the Clintoons, Zero...
Have my admiration ? No, sir. Not in a million years. Why he has yours is truly baffling for anyone who knows who and what he was.