It’s shocking how many JFK sycophants are on this board.
They seem to dwarf the Truman fans!
Too caught up in attempting to appropriate these liberals and try to highlight the decline of the values of the democrat party. The democrats HAVE declined but from pond scum to radioactive waste, they were never GOOD. Reagan saying the democrats LEFT HIM may have been useful propaganda but it wasn’t true and he admitted as much (”I was part of the problem back then”).
Truman and Kennedy are comparable. Kennedy cutting taxes from 90% to 70% and being “anti-communist” doesn’t make him “a conservative” or a good President anymore than Truman making the hard choice to drop the bomb does.
They don’t deserve praise for fulfilling a couple of the minimum-requirements of decent governing. That’s like the libs giving Obama a a Nobel prize in the category of “Not being George Bush”.