Newsmax: The Steve Salzberg Show- Ira Stoll: Author of JFK Conservative

Source:Newsmax- talking to author Ira Stoll.

"And former vice president and managing editor of the New York Sun Author of the new  provocative book "JFK: Conservative." 

From Newsmax 

I wrote a couple of posts last week why Jack Kennedy would not only be a Democrat but a loyal Democrat, a good Democrat and even a Liberal Democrat and he’s a big reason why I’m a Liberal Democrat. 

For people, especially on the partisan Right, who want to make any person in the Democratic Party, or anyone on the Left that they may claim to respect as less than democratic or liberal, they do not either understand the Democratic Party in America. Or have chosen to ignore those things to make their partisan political points. 

To listen to these partisan right-wingers, you get the idea that all Democrats are on the Far-Left and we are all Socialists or Social Democrats. Or today’s Far-Left is the mainstream Democratic Party in America. 

I agree that the Far-Left in America wouldn’t have much to like about Jack Kennedy, because he was someone who believed there was a limit to how much you could tax, people including the wealthy and a limit to how much government can do for people and still have a strong economy and you needed a strong national defense whether you are dealing with the Soviet Union in his time, or private Islāmic terrorists today. 

To put Jack Kennedy in modern, mainstream media political standards, you would have to say that JFK would be a Classical Liberal today. Someone who doesn't fit in with the Christian-Right, or the Tea Party, or the Neoconservatives. But he wouldn't be with the Bernie Sanders or Liz Warren's today either. People who the so--called mainstream media like to call Progressives or Liberals. 

Jack Kennedy was a big believer in economic freedom and opportunity, which put him to the left of what I at least would call the Far-Left in America. But he would've been to the Right of the Tea Party Populists, the Christian-Right, and even Libertarian-Right, on civil rights and a lot of other cultural issues. Just look at his own personal life, we're talking about a man who loved personal freedom to the point that he couldn't control his own personal life, especially his sexual life. 

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