[Bonemaker]

“Dinesh D’Souza explains ‘outrageous’ Trump-Lincoln comparison”

I’ll explain it. Lincoln was GOPe of the times.

[jjotto]

Interesting way to look at it. The new Republican Party of Lincoln’s time was not conservative. One of its founders, Horace Greeley, published Karl Marx for years in his New York Tribune, the leading newspaper of its time (like the later NY Times was until recently).

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Lincoln was GOPe of the times.

From the article:

Lincoln, [D’Souza] pointed out, was surrounded by moderates who begged him to avert conflict by essentially giving up the mandate of the election.

“They basically said you should agree to extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the Pacific and permanently allow slavery south of it, and permanently ban slavery north of it,” D’Souza said.

Lincoln said no, arguing he had been entrusted with carrying out the people’s mandate, and he refused to give up the principles on which he had campaigned.

So, no.

I hope the movie is effective.