They always reach back to black civil rights. It’s the one and only time they were mostly right and had the moral high ground, forgetting, of course, the Eisenhower and the Republicans in congress were very much on the same side and that millions of Democrats were against them. Every other issue, whether it be “the war on poverty,” Vietnam, unilateral nuclear disarmament, homosexuals and etc. they were demonstrably wrong.
High ground that they immediately exploited to make blacks dependent on themselves politically.
Their hero was JFK, but they were forced to make do with LBJ. Who was, in fact, a pluperfect liberal -- power-hungry, conniving and thoroughly corrupt.