Posted on 05/29/2024 3:08:24 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The year was 1860. The nation was coming apart and yet, its political parties made plans to come together - to gather in convention despite deep-seated and festering sectional issues, each to nominate a candidate and approve platforms that, as it turned out, united regions but not a nation. That meant dark consequences, ensuring this country would reap a cataclysmic whirlwind.
With today’s polarization as a historical backdrop, this is the story of the most divisive presidential election in the history of this nation - the election of 1860.
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1860 most certainly is rhyming with 2024.
How close the rhyme remains to be seen. The blue states might secede rather than accept Trump, which is similar to my first and thus far only novel’s theme, CW2 by 2013. Never happened, so far.
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