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Ok jokes aside "The Compassion of Lyndon Johnson" is the greatest chapter of non-fiction I have ever read. Caro's ability to depict LBJ's penchant for cruelty and empathy is otherworldly. In a span of paragraphs you will jump from thinking "LBJ was as much of a racist piece of shit as the rest of them" to "all along he was the only amongst them who cared. their tears were his tears. our plight was his plight"

Finally getting to the part about LBJ’s “tactical racism”

There was have only been two yes two good Supreme Court justices to ever sit the bench. The rest should either have been tarred and feather whenever they stepped out in public or [redacted]

Understood. Oil lobbyists must be sentenced to 15 years hard labor