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Lyndon Johnson
early and often
Jan. 10, 2024
Biden Set to Avoid New Hampshire Primary Humiliation Polls show President Biden is on track for a huge victory in the New Hampshire primary, though he isn’t even on the ballot.
early and often
May 11, 2023
Biden Withdrawing Like LBJ Is Just a GOP Fantasy Hugh Hewitt predicted Biden might drop out of the 2024 presidential race like Johnson did in 1968. But Biden’s situation is nothing like LBJ’s.
By Ed Kilgore
Biden Didn’t Have the Power or Luck to Become FDR or LBJ Biden is trying to govern in an era totally unlike the 1930s or 1960s with little margin for error and a lot of nasty surprises. Give him a break.
By Ed Kilgore
If Democrats Don’t Exploit This Trifecta, Another Could Be Far Away Democrats will probably lose their governing trifecta in 2022, and it won’t get easier in 2024 or 2026. Historically, they don’t come along often.
By Ed Kilgore
How Biden Could Bypass Republican State Governments No one since Johnson and Nixon has tried to direct federal dollars specifically to cities and counties in hostile states, but Biden may consider it.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 15, 2020
How Georgia Became the Ultimate Battleground State Georgia Democrats have slowly come back after brief successes under Carter and Clinton. But in the January Senate runoffs, they have their big chance.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 11, 2020
Biden’s Popular-Vote Win Is Beginning to Look More Impressive Percentage-wise, he did better than any Democrat not named Obama in a half century.
By Ed Kilgore
george floyd protests
June 9, 2020
The Origins of the ‘Police Riot’ Chicago cops went violently rogue at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and the whole world was watching.
By Ed Kilgore
insurrection act
June 4, 2020
Tom Cotton Is Wrong About the Insurrection Act There’s really no recent precedent for presidents’ sending in the troops without the consent of governors who aren’t in open rebellion.
By Ed Kilgore
george floyd protests
June 1, 2020
Trump Mulls Declaring an Insurrection and Sending Military Into Cities If deployed widely without requests from state officials, such use of the military would be unprecedented.
By Ed Kilgore
JFK’s Complicated Legacy on the Anniversary of His Assassination His tragically shortened presidency was shrouded by myth and distorted by the family dynasty.
By Ed Kilgore
For Presidents and Candidates, Heart Disease Is Not So Uncommon Bernie Sanders’s mild heart trouble is of concern, but it’s not like candidates and presidents with worse tickers and lifestyles haven’t preceded him.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Aug. 14, 2019
McGovern Didn’t Lose in 1972 by Going Too Far Left. Neither Will 2020 Democrats. The popular narrative of McGovern’s 1972 run is riddled with misconceptions. The risks Democrats run in 2020 have nothing to do with “McGovernism.”
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 17, 2019
Buttigieg Wants to Bring Back One of Bill Clinton’s Signature Proposals Expanding national service was Clinton’s most reliable 1992 applause line, and it could help candidates like Mayor Pete strike a communitarian tone.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 21, 2019
Democrats’ Voting-Rights Push Could Begin a Third Reconstruction Partisan polarization over voting rights shows how much political power, now as in the 1860s and 1960s, depends on who participates in democracy.
By Ed Kilgore
donald trump
Jan. 8, 2019
Trump Reaches for Gravitas in His First Prime-Time Oval Office Speech Perhaps the venue, which Americans associate with big, consequential issues, can help convince a skeptical public that Trump needs his border wall.
By Ed Kilgore
what’s past is prologue
Oct. 16, 2018
The Ghosts of the ’68 Election Still Haunt Our Politics The “backlash” politics of crime and race, an unpopular war, a divided Democratic Party — they are all still with us.
By Ed Kilgore
The Powerful Myth of the Would-Be President RFK, 50 Years Later Robert F. Kennedy promised a kind of mind-bending coalition of minorities and white working-class voters that progressives still crave.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Can Win in 2020. But History Tells Us It Won’t Be Easy. Yes, incumbents usually have an advantage. They usually are more popular than Donald J. Trump though.
By Ed Kilgore
A Century After JFK’s Birth, White Catholics and Black Voters Have Drifted Apart In 1960, overwhelming percentages of those demographics lifted him to the presidency. That coalition is broken today.
By Ed Kilgore
ted kennedy
Sept. 3, 2009
Ted Kennedy’s Book Tells of Secret RFK-LBJ Meeting Robert Kennedy wanted to go to Vietnam to broker peace in 1967, but for personal reasons LBJ said no.
By Chris Rovzar