'There was a lot going on politically in both the early 1930s and the early 1960s that’s not going on in today’s chronically polarized and gridlocked landscape,' explains ed_kilgore
Lyndon Johnson campaigning during the 1966 midterms in which Republicans would make big gains. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Image A year ago, Joe Biden assumed the presidency amid optimistic predictions among left-of-center pundits that he was planning a legislative agenda scaled to emulate the transformative presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, the legendary creators of, respectively, the New Deal and the Great Society.
But when Biden’s actual agenda became apparent via his various “plans” , the LBJ comparisons grew owing to his focus on anti-poverty efforts of the sort that Democrats have largely shirked for decades. The decision to prioritize the goals of his party’s activist base over the issues prioritized by voters is more reminiscent of the last half-century of politically unsuccessful Democratic presidents than of Mr. Roosevelt himself.It’s not so much Mr. Roosevelt’s New Deal as Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. One launched an era of Democratic dominance; the other brought that era to its end.
Both the earlier Democratic presidents, moreover, benefited from some bipartisan support on key initiatives. 81 House Republicans and 16 Senate Republicans voted for FDR’s landmark Social Security Act in 1935. Similarly 70 House Republicans and 13 Senate Republicans voted for LBJ’s 1965 legislation creating Medicare and Medicaid. By contrast, Biden faced a determined obstructionist GOP whose leader had not conceded the legitimacy of the election that made him president.
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