Posted on 09/04/2020 2:40:39 PM PDT by OddLane
In what has since become known as his first major speech, Abraham Lincoln famously warned the Young Mens Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois in 1838 about the dangers of mob rule.
As reprehensible as are the immediate consequences of mob rule, however, Lincolns larger strategy in the speech is to use our revulsion at the actions of the mob to draw our attention to the long-term dangers of what he calls the mobocratic spirit.
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