I have said for years, if JFK were alive today WITH THE SAME BELIEFS, he would have to be a Republican. The Dem Party has gone so far Left, they have nearly fallen off the Left side of the earth!
Not JFK, but his brother Robert, once a specialist in digging up opposition research for none other than Joe McCarthy, a fellow Catholic in the US Senate at the same time John was also in the Senate. McCarthy and the Kennedys were close personal friends as well.
Robert Kennedy stood a very good chance of knocking off Richard Nixon for the Presidency a SECOND time (losing yet again to a Kennedy), so a lot of history changed that day.
Witness Ronald Reagan.
No, a diehard Democrat never loses faith in “the democracy”, or as Edward Moore Kennedy called it “the dream.”