They've ALWAYS hated John F. Kennedy

[maxrandb]

The only reason they’ve kept their hatred, mostly out of public view, is because they could never quite figure out a way to demean, dehumanize and stomp on a man who had his brains blown out on national TV.

Oh, they wanted to smear him, and dance on his grave, but the video of his blood covered wife scrambling over the trunk of a speeding car to grab pieces of his skull, and his 2 year old son saluting his casket gave them "pause".

For 63 years, they turned over every rock, and dug through every putrid sewer retention pond, searching for an entity vile enough, evil enough and disgusting enough to malign the legacy of President Kennedy.

They finally found him...and they're gleeful about it.

This seems a silly thing to call for a National Strike over, but maybe it's not that silly.

[Prairie Gates]

1. Disagree: MAGA actually has a very weird relationship to Kennedy and Kennedy-ness

QAnon lionized Kennedy and thought he was secretly going to return. They used to gather in Dealy Plaza to wait for him. MAGA then lionized John Jr., who was also supposed to be a kind of returning redeemer. The arguments that JFK policies more closely resemble contemporary Republican policies is a constant on the MAGA right. There's also a sense that the JFK assassination was the origin of the "deep state," with the assassination conspiracies being the founding moment of the contemporary conspiracy theories.

The endorsement and MAGA-ization of RFK Jr was probably the most celebrated moment of the 2024 campaign for MAGA. It was also viewed as a redemption moment for them.

I think they actually love a MAGA-ized version of JFK. It's a weird dynamic: because MAGA is esse ntially a boomer and Gen-X movement, there's a kind of closeness to the Kennedy assassination that must be appropriated by it, a nostalgia that can't b3e turned away as "Democrat," but must be included as "Truly MAGA" within the MAGA emotional world. A strange and irrational love for an (imagined) JFK is far more what's at work in Trump's Kennedy Center nonsense.

[rampartd]

2. they hated jfk

claimed the 1960 election was rigged with about the same evidence as rudy had in 2020.

they have never considered any democratic president (or any other office) to be legitimate,

[PatSeg]

3. Yep, a whole lot of sour grapes with that party

Often, they were jealous of the charismatic, successful Democratic politicians who won so much support from the American voters. Ronald Reagan was their answer to JFK - they hired an actor to play the republican alternative to FDR and JFK.

[Clouds Passing]

4. Would not doubt for one second

that somehow the dump family was involved with the assassinations of the Kennedys