[DiogenesLamp]

What spooks me a bit is that “honest abe” was supposedly the founder of the Republican party. OTOH, the upper echelons of the Republican party is Deep State Controlled Opposition, as we see today in the likes of the Liz Cheney’s and Turle McConnells and Myth RomEny’s.

This is what I have come to believe. Lincoln's methodology was the kernel around which our modern Deep State Crony Capitalist Federal Leviathan has formed.

Lincoln was effectively the God Father of our current mafioso like government.

[BDParrish]

(i)Lincoln was effectively the God Father of our current mafioso like government.(/i)(p)After Lincoln’s death, Johnson tried to carry out the “malice toward none” doctrine but was impeached by the deep state. I suggest that it was that swamp unhindered by a hobbled Pres. Johnson that was the “kernel” from which the death and destruction of the 20th century grew.