and for a politician, the president of the united states to say, good-bye, say good-bye to his own base, to do the right thing, by introducing the civil rights act, became the civil rights act, was a phenomenal act of political courage, nobody really has ever done anything like that since. it worked. they loved abraham lincoln after all. look, i was there. i was there. and absolutely it up ended american politics, really, because the power was all in the southern democrats, dixiecrats, who ran the powerful congressional committees who worked as as entrenched as they could be and dead set against integration. and it took a lot of courage to tell your own party, no, we ll do this thing that you absolutely do not want to do. lyndon johnson who succeeded kennedy, made a clear
like to see them both take a page out of jimmy carter s playbook and have a standard bearer for lifting our country from the bottom up of we are the country from all the folks who were and andrew jackson. for he was alive and kicking today he would be a republican. you are the retreads of the dixiecrats. donald trump is the that says that andrew jackson is. he is not with us. we are rapidly going off the rails here. i m going to stop this right here. ben and rick, thank you for making me put my face on my desk. that wraps things up for me on this tuesday. thank the lord ali is picking
i don t we can have an historical conversation, if you d like. the robert byrd question. you know, there s some truth there about the dixiecrats and the like. that was then, this is now. to the now part of this. is this how you get attention in today s politics that if you said wow, so i have to do wow-plus? i think the internet has created an environment where that kind of thing is rewarded. those videos go viral. elizabeth warren, democratic groups fund-raised hand over fist off her comments. and he s up for re-election in 2018. all politicians want this viral moment they can get a money bomb and an infusion of cash on whether it s good for democracy, i think, is another question. money bombs and attention are different than actual eelectoral wins. you reach the end of this tactic, calling someone a racist for whatever their belief that disagrees with you doesn t work.
or one campaign season getting even more heated because they re all sitting there in the same building on capitol hill. so this is the culmination of a long-term trend. it s just happening a lot faster. go back 30 years, 24-hour news got blamed for some of this. now thomas jefferson would have looked silly in his wig today. this is a two-way street. we read you elizabeth warren s tweet. here s senator ted cruz. once went to the floor to call his own leader a liar, but listen to him here talk about the democrats. when the left doesn t have any other arguments, they go and just accuse everyone of being a racist. and it s an ugly, ugly part of the modern democratic party. the democrats are the party of the ku klux klan. look at the most racist. the dixiecrats. they were democrats who imposed segregation, imposed jim crow laws who founded the klan. the klan was founded by a great many democrats.
million healthcare from 20 million americans but three million african-americans, and we know that 2,500 people die from the lack of every 500,000 people who have the lack of access to healthcare. he says poor black people, but there are eight million more poor white people than african-americans, and 95 of the 100 poorest counties in this country are in so-called red states. so what we have here is hypocrisy. when he says he wants to protect black people, but then he wants to promote the proliferation of guns and uphold the policies of the n.r.a., it is so contradictory. this level of republicans who took over the republican party from the dixiecrats, this is not the hooks who used to be president of the naacp, or the ted teddy roosevelt. these are the dixiecrats and they ve been running for a long