> any of the other Democrats at the time The Democrats were anything but a bloc in the days of LBJ and RFK. The progressive wing was, with LBJ, forcing throug

> any of the other Democrats at the time The Democrats were anything but a bloc in the days of LBJ and RFK. The progressive wing was, with LBJ, forcing through the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, over the objections and filibuster of the Dixiecrats, who were soon to flee the party in droves. Meanwhile, LBJ was terrified that RFK would primary him and win. It is fundamentally meaningless to try to differentiate someone from "the Democrats" when the party was fundamentally split between warring ideologies.