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The only difference between now and past political eras is technology makes it easier for more people to vent their spleen publicly.

Mr. Lincoln was often treated as badly as Mr. Trump, called a backwoods, ignorant savage who did not understand how things worked in Washington.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/abraham-lincoln-is-an-idiot/309304/

[PeterPrinciple]

The only difference between now and past political eras

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dueling pistols ( article today) used to be in vogue.

[exDemMom]

Mr. Lincoln was often treated as badly as Mr. Trump, called a backwoods, ignorant savage who did not understand how things worked in Washington.

I read once that Mary Todd Lincoln was horribly abused by the press.

If she wore elegant clothing to a state function, they criticized her for acting like arrogant royalty and being out of touch. If she wore ordinary clothing to a state function, they criticized her for failing to dress for the occasion, thereby making the US look bad in front of foreign dignitaries. Nothing she ever did was right, in the eyes of the press.

The press has never changed.