Republicans have figured it out. Democrats have not.

[Wiz Imp]

64. I found this very interesting. From a Speech Lyndon Johnson gave in 1966:

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-congressional-dinner-held-the-national-guard-armory

Will Rogers once said, "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." I ran across that quotation last night in a magazine article, and I jotted down what it said:

"This week, any Democrat in the United States could borrow Will Rogers' words and describe his own status with as much accuracy as humor. The Democratic Party is disorganized, in debt, and leaderless. Democrats are wondering where their next candidates are coming from."

That article appeared shortly before the congressional campaign of 1954, and I must confess it had a very personal meaning for me. It said the Democrats might do all right in the House, but we were in such great trouble in the Senate "that Lyndon Johnson has very little chance of ever becoming majority leader."

Well, the voters thought otherwise. They gave President Eisenhower a Congress that could get things done. I bring this up tonight because we are in an election year and I want to remind you of how much trouble the Democrats always seem to have in an election year before the votes are counted.

So critics were saying the same types of things about Democrats 70 years ago (disorganized, in debt, and leaderless), and less than 10 years later they passed one of the most important pieces of legislation in the history of the country: The Civil Rights Act.