Why is Lyndon Johnson not revered by liberals?

There's a few reasons for this: -LBJ was distrusted by liberals for most of his political career. LBJ's rise to national prominence was as Senate majority leader during the Eisenhower presidency, so getting things done often meant getting cozy with a Republican president. read more

To be clear, Lyndon Johnson is probably the most important liberal leader of the past 100 years. He passed landmark / society-changing civil rights and voting rights legislation + the most redistributive / pro-poor-people / anti-poverty program set in history (the Great Society). read more

Lyndon Johnson, as a psychopathic serial murderer, is not a pleasant topic to think about for establishment liberals who like to think of him as a belated champion of civil rights, voting rights, and a slew of Great Society programs. read more

Something like this began to happen to Lyndon Johnson during 1965, when he found himself - for almost the first time - surrounded by men and events he could not control: Vietnam and the Kennedys, and, later, the press, Congress, and even the public, whose approval was essential to his own esteem. read more