One can argue that John F. Kennedy was a conservative and Richard Nixon was a liberal. Even Ronald Reagan and the Bushes were liberals in some respects. This is by way of illustrating that the political spectrum changes over time.
Jimmy Carter is now hailed as a liberal success, but he was actually conservative in his own time. Challenging conventional w…
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