Actually, LBJ was a hard left socialist/communist including his “Great Welfare Socialism” programs that has cost American taxpayers $20 TRILLION in wasted money.
btw, FDR was another hard left communist and was just as responsible as Stalin for the dark communism that fell on Eastern Europe after WW2.
The “hard left” wanted the radical LBJ to be more radical.
I know...I was there.
I’m old enough to have watched LBJ in action as well. We will just have to agree to disagree. The mainstream of liberals were anticommunist and LBJ was one them. That didn’t stop them from pushing the welfare state. The Communist Left supported Hanoi, Cuba, and the USSR. That hardly fits Johnson.