Frankly, any conservative like me who likes Strauss must see the Kennedy fenomenon with a smile in his face.
It is a sign that the USA are still a Republic and not a democracy, And quite an aristocratic one: the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Bushes,…
Ted belongued to one aristocratic family who seek suport in the populace, just like happened in ancien Rome. The only difference being that there they used their own money and Ted used the one that belongued to others.