JFK was a disaster for America, and Reagan despised the man as a Marxist. Reagan wrote a hand written letter to vice president Nixon saying that he was going to switch parties, and wanting permission to help Nixon defeat Kennedy.
Here are Reagan’s private thoughts on JFK-
"I do not include Kennedy's acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the "challenging new world" is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger & do more and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans should try to "out liberal" him. In my opinion this would be fatal."
””One last thought,— shouldn’t someone tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.””
With all due respect to Reagan, it’s a common misconception that Marx was for bigger government. Actually, his main heroes were the anarchistic Jacobins, who outright slaughtered people, even their own forces, for a sick laugh, and wanted to reenact the Reign of Terror and make it even gorier than before, not to mention the Jacobins and other French Revolutionary groups literally MURDERED government, far from expanding government. Make no mistake, what Marx wanted was complete anarchy, not a bigger form of government. Big Government if anything was closer to a means to an end for him.
And even Vladimir Lenin also wanted anarchy. Let’s not forget one of his mission statements, based on Gary Paul Morrison’s article “Leninthink”, entailed the complete destruction of law and order even when firmly in power, citing its continued existence as the reason the Paris Commune fell.
And quite frankly, if the Kennedys were Marxists, why would they aid McCarthy in taking down several? I know if I were a Kennedy and I were a Marxist, that would be grounds for me to make SURE McCarthy was taken down, not the Commies.