“I see Donald Trump as the second best United States President after Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln freed American Slaves, and Trump will - essentially - free American welfare slaves.”
Lincoln? Lincoln freed SOME of the slaves as a military move while trying his best to destroy the Indian. Free speech wasn’t one of his favorites either and he jailed journalists and others who opposed him.
Yep.
The Louisiana Purchase Treaty protected property held in that area in the US,
Your words are quite charitable towards the *true* character of Mr. Lincoln.
I liken the *true* character of Mr. Lincoln more to the persona of a character concocted in the imagination of a close relative - the character; Bob Ewell.
Slavery was simply low lying fruit, a card in the deck at Mr. Lincoln’s disposal. Mr. Lincoln was possessed by a malignant spirit of which we’ve not seen on national politics until recently.
Bob Ewell and Mr. Lincoln could have swapped roles in life and fiction, respectively.