Kirkpatrick was associated with almost all sides of the political spectrum: starting as a socialist before aligning with Democrats but kind of gravitating toward hawkish Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and then finally neoconservatism and a place in Teflon Ron’s cabinet in the 1980s as a Democrat and spoke as one at the Repubba’s ’84 convention before flipping to the Republicans officially in 1985.
Kirkpatrick was associated with almost all sides of the political spectrum: starting as a socialist before aligning with Democrats but kind of gravitating toward hawkish Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and then finally neoconservatism and a place in Teflon Ron’s cabinet in the 1980s as a Democrat and spoke as one at the Repubba’s ’84 convention before flipping to the Republicans officially in 1985.