Think about truman for a minute. Truman was an oldfashioned democrat who belong to every known club in the home town in missouri. He was a back slapper. He despised harry truman. John Kenneth Galbraith despised harry truman. They wanted him off the ticket in 1948. Even though they had no idea what eisenhower represented, but he wasnt truman. Truman was normal and they didnt want that. Kennedys father hadnt been very pleasant in world war ii. Robert kennedy worked for joe mccarthy. So what was so appealing about this was he wasnt ordinary. He didnt come out of the middle class. He represented the something above elevating the american pace. The big changes the addition of the publicsector liberalism. As we know it is a force collapsed with the tromping of mcgovern as some and then Ronald Reagan electoral victories in the 1980s. But the liberalism reconstruct itself when labor reconstructs itself around the public sector. Thats why i say what happened in new york is an expression of this