http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/09/jeremy-lotts-life-of-buckley/ A First Things Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/09/jeremy-lotts-life-of-buckley/#comment-13646 Steve Billingsley Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:44:12 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=8586#comment-13646 Reality is that JFK politically wouldn't only be to the right of the entire Democratic party today, he would be to the right of a good percentage of the Republican party. His politics today are lost in the haze of the tabloid aspects of his personal life, the self-serving re-interpretation of his views by the Ted Sorensens of the world and the conspiracy theory alternative universe surrounding his assassination. Who knows what his politics would have been if he had lived. Perhaps he would have drifted left like RFK did later in his life. His assassination certainly altered the trajectory of the politics of the 60s so it is difficult to say. But the reality of what his politics were during his lifetime are very different than the popular perception. Reality is that JFK politically wouldn’t only be to the right of the entire Democratic party today, he would be to the right of a good percentage of the Republican party.
His politics today are lost in the haze of the tabloid aspects of his personal life, the self-serving re-interpretation of his views by the Ted Sorensens of the world and the conspiracy theory alternative universe surrounding his assassination. Who knows what his politics would have been if he had lived. Perhaps he would have drifted left like RFK did later in his life. His assassination certainly altered the trajectory of the politics of the 60s so it is difficult to say. But the reality of what his politics were during his lifetime are very different than the popular perception.

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