time. and so biden, i believe, felt there was a moment or t opportunity for him to do at the united states at home what lbj managed to do in the mid 1960s. the difference, of course, that lbj had the numbers in congress. he had a working liberal majority. president biden has never had a progressive working majority in congress. do we do ourselves and current presidents a disservice then by comparing them to previous presidents given all of the comparisons that we saw last year with president biden coming in, many saying this is the right time for him, comparing him to lbj and yet knowing the differences you just laid out right there. the numbers were not on president biden s side, nor are the times. the society is just more polarized today. part of the problem is that