LBJ, sensitive guy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Sep 17 12:57:12 PDT 1999


Nathan Newman wrote:


> Ah yes, the guy Doug always tells me was so much more liberal than Clinton.
> Much like Doug's other favorite liberal Nixon.

The point is not the person but what happened in government and, more importantly, *why* it happened. Nixon's objective record was so much better than Clinton's because of the mass movements (not focused on electoral politics) that existed. Ditto LBJ. Ditto FDR. The *results* of electoral politics are fundamentally determined by non-electoral activity (or the absence of it).

For illumination of this fact in an earlier period, see (for example),

Barbara Jeanne Fields, *Slavery and freedom on the middle ground:

Maryland during the Nineteenth Century*, Yale UP, 1985.

Carrol



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