“post-JFK Kennedy whose main talent is bamboozling lowest common denominator idiot voters.”
What makes you think that wasn’t true of JFK? Or, as my dear, sainted mother used to call him, “That pig-eyed, inbred, shanty Irish trash.”
Without TV, he wouldn’t have come anywhere near close enough for election fraud to put him over the top.
He may have been right to take us to the brink of nuclear war, but the way he got us off that brink was to give Khrushchev everything he wanted.
I'd be delighted to have a Democrat president as good today. Hell, I'm not even sure that the last four GOP nominees would've risen to that level, including George W. Bush.