If JFK were alive today he’d be retweeting anti-Trump garbage from his nursing home. And when he died the picture of him coming on stage and hugging Obama at the 2008 DNC would the one the media would keep playing over and over. Every member of that family is/was a POS.
The democrat party (NEVER the better party) was taken over by socialists on the national level in 1896. It was completely dominated by swine socialists during reign of terror of FDR after which time decent conservative democrats started voting going GOP for President. The last time it nominated a conservative for President was 1924, a huge chunk of rat voters refused to back him and voted for the liberal RINO running a third party campaign, that’s right this conservative democrat, John Davis, got the smallest share of the popular vote of ANY democrat nominee ever and that INCLUDES Stephen Douglas in 1860 when the Southern rats bolted!
It may be politically useful to appropriate JFK (just like MLK) but just like with MLK the facts cannot back it up. Richard Nixon for all his flaws was the man to back in 1960. Everything Johnson did? Jack was gonna do. Cutting taxes from 90% to 70% doesn’t make you a conservative, it just makes you a slightly less loathsome piece of garbage.
I think folks tend to see more - ONLY - the murdered President, and less the policies and things he supported.
The fact that he served honorably in WWII didn’t hurt him either, what with the whole PT-109 incident (although how much of that is real versus fabricated is up to anyone guess as well; I’ve heard both sides of that story).
A very wise man and dear friend of mine once told me - “You come to a point where you realize that most of what you were taught just might be bullsh*t...” And regarding history - FDR, etc., - he was correct.