I did. Kennedy doesn’t care about the timeframe of the Soviet bit. He just wants a five second soundbite for his constituents. If he was talking to Bernie he’d bring up his honeymoon too. I’m also not a National Review subscriber so I can’t read the whole thing.
Also as another commenter points out the government can already control access to private banking like a spigot quite well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29559738