And I think it's fair to say that LBJ, especially LBJ in 1964, was worse on pretty much every measure than Joe Biden in 2020, while Goldwater was significantly LESS bad than Donald Trump
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So now imagine how bad Barry Goldwater had to be, for MLK to go balls to the wall to try desperately to defeat him and re-elect LBJ, only a few months after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed
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And how bad the trends in the Republican Party MLK believed Goldwater represented became, to the point where Goldwater himself denounced the Reagan Republicans in the 80s as having become too extreme for him
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Lotta 70s Dems were pretty badass social-welfare-state rich-taxers.
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I'm an apologist for the Watergate Babies myself but folks like Matt Stoller (whom
@findfredhampton has obviously cribbed most of his talking points from) like to call that generation the beginning of the "neoliberalization" of the Democrats - Show replies
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or more generally any given person from any period in the past
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