“BTW, all too many folks on the Right believe that if JFK were alive today, he would be a Republican. Give me a break!”
I think Rush and Hannity promote that idea. Another way to look at it is that people who think this would have been enthusiastic JFK Democrats.
Dennis is a conservative-friendly liberal. But he believes in the defining issue of 1960s liberalism, the civil rights legislation that ultimately has led to multiculturalism, mass third world immigration, minority preferences, the power of the government to compel businesses to hire according to race and gender, and at this point to force Americans to embrace gay marriage.
He can’t have it both ways. Americans used to have the freedom to act in ways that liberals hate. When you pass laws giving politicians the power to force Americans to obey the liberal paradigm you’re a liberal, if not a leftist.
An extreme Leftist! The misuse of the word "Liberal"--both in Academia & the Mass Media--of course, largely also describes extreme Leftists or Marxist Influenced Pseudo-Intellectual Poseurs ("Mipips").
All of the evils that you describe result from the compulsive need to pretend that everyone & all "life-styles" are equal. Egalitarianism is the "Gift" That Keeps On Taking.
His rhetoric notwithstanding, JFK was a Leftist; perhaps a tad less so than brother Teddy, but a Leftist.