Word: jpk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Signs in the America Ballroom of the Westin Hotel said it all: "Charleston Cheers for JPK," "Allston Loves JPK," "Newton Wishes They Could Vote For Joe Kennedy...
Alarmingly, both share a discouraged, even despairing view of government's role in society. Reagan, a political outsider, ran on a platform of getting the feds off America's back and has slashed and snipped when he wasn't selling wholesale. Similarly, JPK puts forward no vision of a brighter, fairer country led by responsive lawmakers committed to social justice. He instead opts to try to out-technocrat the conservatives, following the same defeatist logic that led Uncle Teddy '54 to support Gramm-Rudman's prescription for automatic budget cuts...