He is. And often times when we Freepers discuss the worst president ever? LBJ hardly ever comes up.
It’s always Obama. And while it’s easy to agree Obama was bad, we must never forget how truly terrible Johnson was.
I believe Obama‘s legacy is nearly gone. Clearly the worst thing Obama ever did was Obama care. And that failure is nearly gone. But Johnsons legacy? 50 years later we are still suffering the horrible after affects of his great society.
The only reason I rate LBJ as not being the worst or the most corrupt is that unlike FDR he wasn’t the first to kick aside the Constitution and make it stick, so FDR was the worst (to be effective at lawlessness is far worse than being ineffective), and unlike the Clintons or Obama he may have been a crook but at least he was an America first crook ... he wasn’t gonna sell us out to foreign powers or global governance just for money or ideology.
Johnson was terrible, that’s for sure. And what made the terrible things about LBJ a reality was the 89th Congress, where the ‘Rats had a supermajority in both Houses. That was back in the day when 2/3rds majority was needed in the Senate to move legislation. On some issues the ‘Rats could get things done because the Southern Democrats could stop their own party. That’s why Dirksen’s 1/3 minority was sometimes needed in a compromise mode. If not for the Southern Dems, the rest of the ‘Rats would have told Dirksen to take his 1/3 minority and bugger out.
It can be argued that his policies and killer Kennedy’s immigration bill started the path to the fall of the Republic.
Hopefully we have started to reverse the fall.