Well, I guess that means that there's no need for impeachment proceedings, we can go straight to the criminal charges
What I want to know is, WHO exactly is RUNNING the Democratic party and is calling the shots. Ostensibly it's a collective group of people, but it sounds like it has a head calling the shots regardless of what the average Dems want to do. Probably didn't even ask the everyday people. Did they poll the Democratic base to see what the PEOPLE wanted to do? Or just do what the top wanted to do?
We don't have a high degree of confidence that he actually said it, however.
There's no question that Lyndon Johnson, despite championing the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and signing it into law, was also a sometime racist and notorious vulgarian who rarely shied away from using the N-word in private. For example, he reportedly referred to the Civil Rights Act of 1957 as the "nigger bill" in more than one private phone conversation with Senate colleagues. And he reportedly said upon appointing African-American judge Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, "Son, when I appoint a nigger to the court, I want everyone to know he's a nigger."
According to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, he also uttered this cynical-sounding statement, which sometimes circulates in tandem with the "voting Democratic" remark: