Those who accuse progressives of calling for "purity tests" want this party to stand for nothing.

[zeemike]

175. It is funny how those who now defend incrementalism hated it in the past.

Jim Crow segregation had been institutionalized sense the end of the civil war...at least 2 generations had grown up with it but your criticism of FDR is he did not do it all right then.
This is a case study of how to spin anything.

And the BOP invasion had been planed before JFK took office, and he did take responsibility for not stopping it, but to his credit he did not order US war planes to involve themselves in it...and for that he was hated...and don't tell me different because I was alive and aware at that time.
And BTW my SO went to Florida State and was in assembly when it was announced that JFK had been killed...she said they all stood up and cheered...and much of that hate was because of the BOP.

And bullshit, LBJ was a racist...it was well known in Texas where I was stationed from 62 to 64. And his stint as a teacher was just long enough to get into politics and involve himself with some real slimeballs.
LBJ signed the civil rights act because the country had changed because of the civil rights movement and the violence in the south during his administration as a reaction to the freedom riders...it was pragmatic not moral on his part.

I don't understand why some liberals want to take a dump on those who did what they could to change things...and try to rehabilitate LBJ who expanded the war in Viet Nam for the sake of the MIC.