Eisenhower had insisted on such a bill being passed as a way to quell tensions after Brown v. BoE and after he'd ordered troops to protect the Little Rock Nine LBJ undermined Ike and the GOP by using that procedural genius he was known for, adding a "poison pill clause"
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On "states' rights" grounds, stipulating that anyone prosecuted under the 1957 CRA would be tried in state rather than federal court, which meant in the South they'd face an all-white jury determined to acquit Not as dramatic as Strom Thurmond's filibuster but more effective
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That's just the stuff focused on Black Americans He was a huge Saber-rattler in 1947 after the war, demanding the US pursue aggressive colonial policies in Japan, Korea and the Philippines Telling Truman not to "give an inch to the teeming hordes of godless yellow dwarves"
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I mean you consider yourself a labor historian right His VP nomination was opposed by the whole "labor wing" of the Dems, AFL-CIO President George Meany called him "the arch-foe of labor", he spent his whole early career trying to expand Taft-Hartley
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You think the Vietnam War was bad, right? You agree with MLK that it was a grave injustice and that the specific injustice of the draft fell more heavily on impoverished Black men than any other demographic? Look up the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Jesus fucking Christ I don't like the 1994 crime bill either but get a fucking grip "What did Lyndon Johnson do that could possibly be worse than Joe Biden's neoliberal career" Read a goddamn book Read Wikipedia Read something
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How Online Brain do you have to be to hate the 90s Clinton New Democrats so much you actually think they're the WORST Democrats Yeah buddy they sucked but have you met any other Democrats from any earlier era
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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
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When Stoller talks about "the last effective generation of economic populists" he means segregationist Dixiecrats, like the kind LBJ started as
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He openly said this in his big viral article about "Watergate Babies" while trying to talk around it ("their relationship with segregation was complex")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SidAndFinancy and
Did you ever see the part in the Witcher where Geralt says he refuses to choose between a lesser and greater evil? How valid was that supposed to be? Because in the real world if you don't support the lesser evil you end up with the worst possible evil in charge.
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It's like on of the few good bits in Rise of Skywalker where Hux admits he doesn't care if the Resistance wins so long as Kylo Ren loses.
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