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Thing, and even happen to let people like fdr in lbj, theres some evidence that its happening with joe biden, but if we follow the president here, the reason it was an error of anxiety, if you recall last nights -- first eight months of the biden administration, and the first big test of the enduring effects of trumpism, without trump on the ballot, the results are not even close, given this phenomenon, i was just talking, about their midst attic public opinion its called in political science. t...

Crazy things happen. opinions change. theres a very well known model that manage a public opinion, doing too much, spending, activism, turn it down. theyre moving in opposition to the party controlling the white house. we saw this happen in ba ram obamas term. we saw it happen to donald trump. and because this is a reliable thing, people like fdr, lbj, some of this happened with joe biden but if we follow the historical depression, and as the first big test of the enduring effects of trump i mea...

I know senator man chin, we come from different parts of the party, im progressive, hes a centrist, i believe hes going to get to a yes, and were going to get president bidens agenda passed. what the exact number is, thats going to be a discussion. i have no doubt well get to a yes on both bills. >> you know, for so long republicans have been seen as an obstructing force for good reason when you brag youre going to do everything you can to make every democrat president a one-term president and n...

1966, before medicare would actually go into effect. so we basically gave the country, gave his administration a year. to get it rolled out. weve got a year. ready steady go. funny thing though, more than halfway through that year long wind up, more than halfway through that sort of yearlong on ramp. the lbj had given himself to get medicare implemented. nine months in fact into that year, that he had given the administration and the country to prepare for, the johnson administration suddenly re...

There would be a flood of new patients into americas hospitals because old people who couldnt previously afford to see a doctor, now they would have health insurance coverage. they would be able to see a doctor. there were worries this new tide, this new flood of elderly patients suddenly accessing health services would swamp the nations hospitals. that was the sort of substantive concern about the implementation of medicare, and in the end that fear didnt really materialize either, but the worr...

Thats the civil rights act that had been filibusters by segregationist for 54 straight days. but in the end, their efforts to stop it failed. they signed. it in the civil rights act of 1964 banned segregation. in public facilities, also in private facilities to which the public had access. and the segregationist at the time, screamed bloody murder. its unconstitutional, you cant tell private entities whats to do. actually yes, yes you can. in the summer of 1964, president johnson made that law o...

Before medicare would actually go into effect. so he basically gave the country, gave his administration a year to get it rolled out, right? weve got a year. ready, steady, go. funny thing, though -- more than halfway through that yearlong wind-up, more than halfway through that yearlong on-ramp that lbj had given himself to get implemented, nine months into that year that he had given the administration and the country to prepare for it, the johnson administration suddenly realized what that jo...

Government should commit to providing health coverage to all elderly people in the country. truman could not get it done while he was president. but in 1965, lbj got it done. he signed the bill. creating medicare, in july 1965. and of course, the conservatives at the time screamed bloody murder, a high-profile conservative activist at the time named ronald reagan. denounced this new program. this medicare program as the end of america. as the end of freedom. it would mean a communist takeover of...

Collided with an iceberg, it has capsized and now democrats are scrambling aboard what they think is the last lifeboat, a $3.5 trillion spending bill. >> this is in many ways what might define what his presidency is about. >> it will easily be the most dramatic expansion of the social safety net since lbjs great society. >> this is going to be one of the key moments that joe biden is going to have in his presidency and a legacy defining moment. >> laura: of course the ropes for that lifeboat may...

Linden b. johnson signs the civil rights act into law that had been filibustered by segregationists for 54 straight days. but in the end their efforts to stop it failed. lbj signed it. the civil rights act of 1964, of course, banned segregation in public facilities. also in private facilities to which the public had access. the segregationists at the time screamed bloody murder. its unconstitutional. you cant tell private entities what to do. actually, yes, yes you can. in the summer of 1964, pr...