Steve Moore, CTUP newsletter: (As I've been saying ad nauseum, JFK was a Republican, Nixon was a Democrat, by today's standards.)
Note the fight within his party and how graciously he accepts they are entitled to their opinion and to speak out with it. Teddy was a liberal. JFK was certainly closer to Reagan than to today's Democrat party. I wonder if that gives some of our common sense views some legs with a part of the electorate.
To expect one of the two remaining candidates to be perfect or line up perfectly with your views and personality is 'petty self-indulgence'. It is down to two people to lead the free world, and the question for each voter is, which lines up best with your views, which is best for the country.
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The Sad Disappearance of the JFK Democrats
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s exit from the Democratic Party (or was he booted out?) is only the latest sign that there are no more JFK Democrats left.
Democratic President John F. Kennedy was a staunch anti-communist who fought against union and government corruption. He was laser-focused on faster growth ("we can do bettah") and saw sweeping tax rate reductions as a step toward achieving 4 to 5% growth.
In 1962 he famously declared: "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now."
Sadly, today you could count on one hand the number of Democrats in Washington who believe that. JFK called for a reduction in income tax and capital gains taxes. The Left wants to raise every one of these rates – including doubling capital gains taxes.
When Unleash Prosperity hosted a dinner earlier this year with RFK, Jr., we asked him about tax policy. He replied: "I learned from my uncle that cutting taxes increases prosperity." Liberals have never learned that lesson.
They should educate themselves by reading Larry Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic's wonderful book "JFK and the Reagan Revolution."
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When RFK jr talks about his father and his uncle, he is talking about RFK and JFK,, not Teddy, not AOC, not Bernie Sanders or anyone to the Left of him like Kamala Harris. That's clear now and it wasn't clear to me before. Also, he went up against the lawfare tactics of the Left, trying to keep him in court and off the ballot, so he has a personal connection to Trump in that way.
I will add one caveat, I don't trust their there won't be falling out later and they are by no means the same, but this is quite a development.
Trump should truly utilize what Bobby is best at, not just go after the political benefit.
