Two unpopular opinions: Who is President matters way less than we think it does; it’s mostly emotional. Protesting is one of the worst things you can do politically, because it’s an incredible amount of effort for practically no result other than showing n people feel some way.
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Awesome book: “The Passage of Power” https://www.amazon.com/Passage-Power-Years-Lyndon-Johnson/dp/0375713255 … I listened to it on Audible. Trevor liked that Tweet because he recommended it.
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Do you think the lessons about protesting are still true today? In the past that was the only way to gather sentiment
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During the May Fourth movement (1919), Chinese students gathered in Tiananmen Square demanding that the Chinese gov not sign the Treaty of Versaille because it gave Shandong province to Japan. Arguably the day Chiang Kai-shek really started losing power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement …
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Yuan Shikai, you mean?
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Never mind, I think I see what you mean... But of a stretch though given Chiang wouldn't come to power for almost 10 more years
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Actually, Chiang Kai-shek was a founding member of the KMT after the success of the 1911 Revolution.
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Also… It struck me that in a few ways LBJ was the only one that could have done what he did. In others, it didn’t matter who was president… Civil Rights was going to happen.
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To the main point… I was impressed by how much public opinion meant to LBJ, and how much the public’s reaction to policy impacted his ability to influence congress. Protests work.
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