“Can’t have poor black folks trying to get their way out of the hole we establishment types have put them in. That’d a bad example for all the poor whites we put down there too. Gotta keep yall at each other’s throats so things never change! MONEY!!”

LBJ called it...MAGA is just being sold racist lies so they support a party that is bilking them dry...

Yeah. The Dems need to get back on this beat and rally disenchanted voters. LBJ wasn’t a great president, but he got some pivotal legislation past the goal post. Shame the Dems have taken a knee draped in Kente cloth rather than standing and fighting for expanded civil rights, and voter protections

Yup. LBJ didn't like how progressive JFK was but he also saw that the nation was changing and he grudgingly changed with it. And yes, Democrats need more fire and less politics as usual. This ain't kabuki theatre outside of DC people are hurting and they need a sense of urgency we feel...