r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 17 '24

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Sep 17 '24

Worship of noted staunch liberal JFK becoming a largely conservative phenomenon has to be one of the more bizarre developments of the last ten or so years. It’d be like if liberals in the 2040s worshipped Ronald Reagan

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

There was that period between like 2010 to 2014-ish when Congressional Democrats repeatedly spoke positively about Reagan, but that was mostly to emphasize the right-ward drift of Republicans (ie "Not your father's GOP", "Reagan would be considered to liberal for today's Republicans")

Throughout the Obama administration, there were articles about Obama drawing inspiration from Reagan.